Date:
Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, S050
"Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World"
Speaker:
Aiyaz Husain, Historian, Office of the Historian, US Department of State.
Dr. Husain will discuss his new book from Harvard University Press, Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World. 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.
