| ID: | 22960 |
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| Entry Text: | Tarling, Nicholas. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996, xiii, 434 pp. Good survey except nothing on intelligence; early 17th century, accumulated large empire; 1941-1942, it vanished; conclusion: diplomacy, bluff & hope plus comforting sense of racial superiority buttressed by myths racism spawns. |