Klappentext: This study focuses on the political and strategic implications of the presence in the Indian Ocean of the United States and the Soviet Union. The author examines the geopolitics of the region in historical perspective and describes the evolution of U.S. and Soviet strategy in the...

Introduction -- Strategic need and economic discrimination -- German grand strategy, 1879-1914 -- French grand strategy, 1887-1914 -- British grand strategy, 1919-39 -- U.S. grand strategy, 1945-67 -- Conclusion

"This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact...

"Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World...