| Description |
ix, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Culture, politics, and the cold war |
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Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
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| Contents |
Introduction: struggling for the world / Christian G. Appy -- Slouching toward Bethlehem: culture, diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam / Mark Bradley -- Family ties and political obligation: the discourse of adoption and the Cold War commitment to Asia / Christina Klein -- Feeding beggars: class, caste, and status in Indo-U.S. relations, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter -- America's "best propagandists": Italian Americans and the 1948 "letters to Italy" campaign / Wendy L. Wall -- Who's the real ambassador? exploding Cold War racial ideology / Penny M. Von Eschen -- The road to Vietnam: modernization theory in fact and fiction / Jonathan Nashel -- Discursive subversions: Time Magazine, the CIA overthrow of Musaddiq, and the installation of the Shah / John Foran -- Eisenhower's Guatemalan doodle, or: how to draw, deny, and take credit for a third world coup / Christian G. Appy -- "A world made safe for diversity": the Vietnam lobby and the politics of pluralism, 1945-1963 / James T. Fisher -- "We are all highly adventurous": Fidel Castro and the romance of the white guerrilla, 1957-1958 / Van Gosse -- From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966 / Kevin Gaines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-330) and index |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century.
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Imperialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Cold War.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100071
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Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114847
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| Author |
Appy, Christian G.
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| LC no. |
99037754 |
| ISBN |
1558492186 paperback alkaline paper |
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1558492178 cloth alkaline paper |
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