Soldiering through Empire

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

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ID19984664
AuthorsSimeon Man (0000-0001-8494-5041, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages262
Publication date2018-01-26
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSoldiering through empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520283343.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241811027
Open LibraryOL26955466M
ISBN9780520283343
LanguageEN
Citations received27

In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule, these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Soldiering through Empire uncovers the little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was sustained through overlapping projects of colonialism and race making. Through their military deployments, Man argues, these soldiers took part in the making of a new Pacific world—a decolonizing Pacific—in which the imperatives of U.S. empire collided with insurgent calls for decolonization, producing often surprising political alliances, imperial tactics of suppression, and new visions of radical democracy

Ancient history · Colonialism · Decolonization · Democracy · Economic history · Empire · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1961-1975 · 20th century · Asian Americans Participation · Filipinos Participation · Imperialism · Korean Participation · Military · Military history · Pacific Area · united states · Vietnam war

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