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Author Barney, Timothy, author.

Title Mapping the Cold War : cartography and the framing of America's international power / Timothy Barney
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages)
Contents Introduction : the rhetorical lives of Cold War maps -- Iron albatross : air-age globalism and the bird's-eye view of American internationalism -- One world or two? : mapping a new foreign policy in the transition to Cold War -- Images of commitment and evidentiary weapons : maps and the visual construction of the Soviet Union -- Framing the Third World : American visions of "the South" and the cartography of development -- The end of cartography : state control and radical change in the nuclear geopolitics of the second Cold War -- Conclusion : from globalism to globalization: the afterlives of Cold War maps
Summary In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were "spatialized" in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War-era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world--and the maps that account for them--are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cold War.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
Cartography -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
Political geography -- History -- 20th century
Geopolitics -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Geopolitics
Political geography
World politics
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469618562
1469618567