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Cold war constructions : the political culture of United States imperialism, 1945-1966 / edited by Christian G. Appy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the cold war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- United States--Territories and possessions--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries.
- Developing countries--Foreign relations--United States.
- Developing countries.
- United States--Colonial question--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 340 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Mass : University of Massachusetts Press, c2000.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-33847-7
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