Fierce enigmas

a History of the United States in South Asia

Hardcover, 486 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2018 by Basic Books.

ISBN:
978-0-465-03019-4
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OCLC Number:
1023488969

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"South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts-secular and religious-to remake the world in its image"--

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Subjects

  • American Economic assistance
  • American Humanitarian assistance
  • American Military assistance
  • Foreign relations
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • South Asia
  • South Asian