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By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima, published in 2010, provides an original history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

History of Asia --- History of North America --- Polemology --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- Nuclear weapons --- Government policy --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Asia --- Race relations --- Political aspects --- 1945-1989 --- Political aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation - a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, 'as dangerous a situation in Southeast Asia as we have seen since the war' - was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As American commitment to Vietnam accelerated under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Britain was involving herself in an 'end-of-empire' exercise in state-building which had important military and political implications for both nations. In this book Matthew Jones provides a detailed insight into the origins, outbreak and development of this important episode in international history; using a large range of previously unavailable archival sources, he illuminates the formation of the Malaysian federation, Indonesia's violent opposition to the state and the Western Powers' attempts to deal with the resulting conflict.

Southeast Asia --- Great Britain --- United States --- Indonesia --- Malaysia --- Endonèsie --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Indonesië --- Indonesya --- Indonezia --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Indūnīsīyā --- Induonezėjė --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Republika Indonezija --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- United States of Indonesia --- Yinni --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Република Индонезия --- Индонезия --- Інданезія --- إندونيسيا --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- インドネシア --- インドネシア共和国 --- Dutch East Indies --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Foreign relations --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind& guidance for living a good life. 'The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution' presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, Rene; Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility. In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes' geometry, Pascal's arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz's calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.

Mathematics --- Science --- Philosophy --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Descartes, Rene. --- Descartes, René. --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. --- Mathematics. --- Mathematics - Philosophy - History - 17th century. --- Pascal, Blaise. --- Science - History - 17th century. --- Science - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Science. --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Descartes, René, --- Pascal, Blaise, --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,

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Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind-guidance for living a good life. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility. In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes' geometry, Pascal's arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz's calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.

Science --- Mathematics --- Science and ethics --- Math --- History --- Philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Descartes, René, --- Pascal, Blaise, --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm --- Pascal, Blaise --- Montaltius, Ludovicus --- de Montalte, Louis --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Montalte, Louis de, --- Pasukaru, Burēzu, --- Paskalʹ, Blėz, --- Pascal, Biagio, --- Pʻa-ssu-kʻa-erh, Pu-lai-tzu, --- Pa-ssu-ka, Pa-ssu-chia-erh, --- Pa-ssu-chʻieh-erh, Pa-ssu-chʻia, --- Ppasŭkkal, --- Montaltius, Ludovicus, --- פסקל, בלז --- פסקל, ב., --- virtue, leibniz, pascal, descartes, philosophy, scientific revolution, consolation, purpose, suffering, meaning, morality, ethics, assurance, comfort, science, religion, faith, spirituality, cognition, personal growth, mathematics, discipline, nobility, calculus, arithmetical triangle, geometry, moral therapeutics, history, disproportion, truth, expression, nonfiction. --- 파스칼 --- Descartes, Rene,