To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War Marshall Jonathan
To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War Marshall Jonathan Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security…
Specifikacia To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War Marshall Jonathan
To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War Marshall Jonathan
Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Boldly departing from conventional wisdom, Marshall reexamines the political landscape of the time and recreates the mounting tension and fear that gripped U.S. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities--rubber, oil, and tin--that drew the United States into the conflict.
Unusual in its extensive use of previously ignored documents and studies, this work records the dilemmas of the Roosevelt administration: it initially hoped to avoid conflict with Japan and, after many diplomatic overtures, it came to see war as inevitable. officials in the months before the war. Marshall also explores the ways that international conflicts often stem from rivalries over land, food,