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Author Man, Simeon, author

Title Soldiering through empire : race and the making of the decolonizing Pacific / Simeon Man
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages)
Series American crossroads
American crossroads
Contents Securing Asia for Asians : making the U.S. transnational security state -- Colonial intimacies and counterinsurgency : the Philippines, South Vietnam, and the United States -- Race war in paradise : Hawai'i's Vietnam War -- Working the subempire : Philippine and South Korean military labor in Vietnam -- Fighting "gooks" : Asian Americans and the Vietnam War -- A world becoming : the GI movement and the decolonizing Pacific
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2018)
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Filipinos
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Korean
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Asian Americans
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Imperialism
SUBJECT Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140341
Subject Pacific Area
United States
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017040995
ISBN 9780520959255
0520959256