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Secular Missionaries
Americans and African Development in the 1960s
Av Larry Grubbs
Inbunden, 2010
409 kr
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This title presents a provocative historical analysis of early U.S. policy toward postcolonial Africa. In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a 'Decade of Development', the United States embarked on its first coherent 'Africa' policy. Guided by the precepts of …
Perfectly Average
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America
Häftad, 2010
401 kr
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At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of ""normality"" circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. But what did this term really mean? What were …
Upstaging the Cold War
American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960
Häftad, 2011
366 kr
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Traditional interpretations of the 1950s have emphasised how American anti-communists deployed censorship and the blacklist to silence dissent, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yet those efforts at repression did not always succeed. Throughout the early years of the Cold War, a …
Liberty and Justice for All?
Rethinking Politics in Cold War America
Häftad, 2012
409 kr
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From the congressional debate over the “fall of China” to the drama of the Army–McCarthy hearings to the kitchen faceoff between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the political history of the early Cold War was long dominated by studies of presidential administrations, anti communism, and …
Modernizing Repression
Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century
Häftad, 2012
448 kr
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As American troops became bogged down first in Iraq and then Afghanistan, a key component of U.S. strategy was to build up local police and security forces in an attempt to establish law and order. This approach, Jeremy Kuzmarov shows, is consistent with practices honed over more than a century in …
Call to Conscience
The Anti-Contra War Campaign
Av Roger Peace
Häftad, 2012
409 kr
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Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration’s attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organised and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary …
Cold War State of Mind
Brainwashing and Postwar American Society
Häftad, 2013
432 kr
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First popularised during the 1950s, the concept of “brainwashing” is often viewed as an example of Cold War paranoia, an amusing relic of a bygone era. Yet as Matthew W. Dunne shows in this study, over time brainwashing came to connote much more than a sinister form of Communist mind control, …
Citizenship in Cold War America
The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent
Häftad, 2014
401 kr
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In the wake of 9/11, many Americans have deplored the dangers to liberty posed by a growing surveillance state. In this book, Andrea Friedman moves beyond the standard security/liberty dichotomy, weaving together often forgotten episodes of early Cold War history to reveal how the obsession with …
Forever Vietnam
How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory
Av David Kieran
Häftad, 2014
448 kr
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Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars. In Forever …
Making the Desert Modern
Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
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In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship over the oil reserves in the country's largest province. As drilling commenced and wells proliferated, …
Younger Than That Now
The Politics of Age in the 1960s
Häftad, 2016
355 kr
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Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of “youth” served as a tactic in the political and …
Redefining Science
Scientists, the National Security State, and Nuclear Weapons in Cold War America
Häftad, 2016
409 kr
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The Cold War forced scientists to reconcile their values of internationalism and objectivity with the increasingly militaristic uses of scientific knowledge. For decades, antinuclear scientists pursued nuclear disarmament in a variety of ways, from grassroots activism to transnational diplomacy and …
In Whose Eyes?
The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
Av Tran Van Thuy, Le Thanh Dung m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
654 kr
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Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath.Thuy's …
Agent Orange
History, Science and the Politics of Uncertainty
Häftad, 2012
366 kr
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Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called “the last ghost of the Vietnam War,” this book examines the far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces in Southeast Asia. Edwin A. Martini’s aim is not simply to reconstruct …
Making the Desert Modern
Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
Inbunden, 2015
926 kr
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In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship over the oil reserves in the country's largest province. As drilling commenced and wells proliferated, …
Younger Than That Now
The Politics of Age in the 1960s
Inbunden, 2016
1010 kr
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Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of “youth” served as a tactic in the political and …
In Whose Eyes?
The Memoir of a Vietnamese Filmmaker in War and Peace
Av Tran Van Thuy, Le Thanh Dung m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1073 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. A cameraman for the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went on to achieve international fame as the director of films that address the human costs of the war and its aftermath.Thuy's …
