Description:
McMahon looks closely at one area where American diplomacy played an important role in the end of the European imperial order--Indonesia--placing America's later policy in Indochina, in historical context.
Brief description: Robert J. McMahon is Ralph D. Mershon Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author most recently of Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order.
Review Quotes:
Colonialism and Cold War is based on a wide range of American archival sources, most particularly the State Department and modern military records in the National Archives, on British cabinet and Foreign Office materials in the Public Record Office, and on United Nations records in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Robert J. McMahon is master of materials and has produced a neatly written, nicely judged, and well-argued work.
-- "American Historical Review"