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The Resurgence of Asia

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The West’s grip on its majestic eastern empires was broken by Japan in the Second World War. Unwilling to realize that the age of European dominance had ended, in 1945 the Europeans hastened to reoccupy their Asian empires (Map XXII).

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    William Woodruff (Graduate Research Professor (Emeritus)

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Woodruff, W. (2002). The Resurgence of Asia. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554665_20

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