1st Edition
The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968 Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Introduction - Antony Best 1. Forty Years of Diminishing Cordiality: Anglo-Japanese Relations 1902-41 - Ian Nish 2.The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and International Politics in Asia, 1902-23 - Antony Best 3. Anglo-Japanese Relations and Treaty Port China: The Case of the Maritime Customs Service - Robert Bickers 4. The League of Nations, Washington and Internationalism in East Asia: With Special Reference to the League’s Attempt to Control Opium - Harumi Goto-Shibata 5. Internationalism in East Asia: The Naval Armaments Limitation System, 1922-39 - Joseph A. Maiolo 6. Japan and Pan-Asianism - Masataka Matsuura 7. Bombing, Japanese Pan-Asianism and Chinese Nationalism - Hans van de Ven 8. Britain and the Origins of the San Francisco System - Tomoki Kuniyoshi 9. The Cold War and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: British Strategy, 1948-60 - Peter Lowe 10. The East Asian International Economic Order in the 1950s - Shigeru Akita 11. ‘Complementarity’, Decolonization, and the Cold War: British Responses to Japan’s Economic Revival in Southeast Asia During the 1950s and 1960s - Nicholas J. White 12. Concluding Remarks - Akira Iriye
Biography
Antony Best is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics, UK. He is the author of Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-1941, and British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941.
"An interesting and stimulating collection of papers... A series of stimulating and provocative essays that point the way for further research." - J. E. Hoare, Asian Affairs, Nov 2010






