BOOK TALK: "MAPPING THE END OF EMPIRE: AMERICAN AND BRITISH STRATEGIC VISIONS IN THE POSTWAR WORLD"
Date and Time
September 10, 2014
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT
"Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World"
Speaker: Aiyaz Husain, Historian, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world through very different lenses. Mapping the End of Empire reveals how Anglo–American perceptions of geography shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia.
Location: S050, CGIS South, 1737 Cambridge Street