United States and Decolonization

DAVID RYAN lectures in International History and US foreign relations at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations (1995) and a co-author of The History Atlas of North America, as well as numerous articles on US foreign relations. - VICTOR PUNGONG is Senior Political Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. He has published works on the political and diplomatic aspects of decolonisation.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Foreword; W.Kimball By Way of Introduction: The United States, Decolonization and the World System; D.Ryan The American View of Decolonization, 1776 to 1920: an Ironic Legacy; W.LaFeber The Road to Our America: The United States in Latin America and the Caribbean; L.Johnston Adjusting to a New Period in World History: Franklin Roosevelt and European Colonialism; P.Orders The United States and the International Trusteeship System; V.Pungong The Ironies of History: The United States and the Decolonization of India; D.Merrill How We 'Lost' Vietnam, 1940-1954; L.Gardner The Limits of Ideology: US Foreign Policy and Arab Nationalism in the Early Cold War; S.Lucas The United States and the Decolonization of Black Africa, 1945-1963; J.Kent The United States and Britain's Decolonization of Malaya, 1942-57; A.J.Stockwell The Decolonization Puzzle in US Policy: Promise versus Performance; M.Hunt Afterword; C.Fraser Selected Bibliography Index