Culture, Politics & the Cold War – serie
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Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique
The American Left, the Cold War and Modern Feminism
Häftad, 2000
423 kr
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This biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of ""The Feminine Mystique"" and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe. The links between the …
Cold War Constructions
The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-66
Häftad, 2000
367 kr
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Dissatisfied with traditional diplomatic and military interpretations, historians have been investigating the role that political culture played in shaping global conflicts. This text illuminates the political and cultural assumptions underlying US policies from World War II to the mid-1960s.
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
Häftad, 2001
367 kr
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This work is a cultural history of the Vietnam War and its continuing impact upon contemporary American society. The author presents an investigation of how myths about the war evolved and why people depend on them to answer the confusing questions that have become the legacy of the war. Memories …
Staging Growth
Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War
Häftad, 2003
385 kr
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A timely reassessment of modernization theory and its international impact; Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political develoment within the American foreign policy establishment. Purporting to explain the stages through …
Imperial Brotherhood
Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
Häftad, 2003
666 kr
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An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.
Edward Lansdale's Cold War
Häftad, 2005
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At times we see Lansdale as the arrogant ""ugly American,"" full of confidence that he has every right to make the world in his own image and utterly blind to his own cultural condescension. This is the Lansdale who would use any conceivable gimmick to serve U.S. aims, from rigging elections to …
Washington's China
The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
Av James Peck
Häftad, 2006
399 kr
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This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths, not merely to ""contain"" the People's Republic of China, but to isolate it from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Why, in …
End of Victory Culture
Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
Häftad, 2007
410 kr
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In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West …
Invisible Enemies
The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000
Häftad, 2007
603 kr
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Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, ""Invisible Enemies"" examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature …
Other Side of Grief
The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War
Av Maureen Ryan
Häftad, 2008
442 kr
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This is a wide-ranging critical assessment of the cultural impact of America's longest war.The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war generally, and in the contemporary lives of members …
Vietnam's Southern Revolution
From Peasant Insurrection to Total War, 1959-1968
Av David Hunt
Häftad, 2008
423 kr
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This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the Vietnam War as experienced by the Vietnamese peasantry.In Vietnam, the American government vowed to win the 'hearts and minds' of the people. On the other side, among those who led and sympathized with the insurgents, the term 'people's war' gained a …
Beyond Vietnam
The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990
Häftad, 2009
410 kr
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Reassesses the impact of the activist left on American politics after the Vietnam War. Narratives of the 1960s typically describe an ascending arc of political activism that peaked in 1968, then began a precipitous descent as the revolutionary dreams of the New Left failed to come to fruition. The …
Pro-War Movement
Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatis
Häftad, 2013
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In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war s impact on the burgeoning conservative political …
Dr. America
Lives of Thomas a.Dooley, 1927-61
Häftad, 1998
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This work chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the doctor whose publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s, helped lay the ideological groundwork for the US military intervention a decade later. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Dooley was a playboy socialite, yet devoted to the poor.
Invisible Enemies
The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000
Inbunden, 2007
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Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, ""Invisible Enemies"" examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature …
Myth of the Addicted Army
Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs
Häftad, 2009
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This work offers a probing analysis of the links between the Vietnam War and the evolution of American drug policy. The image of the drug-addicted American soldier - disheveled, glassy-eyed, his uniform adorned with slogans of antiwar dissent - has long been associated with the Vietnam War. More …
American Immunity
War Crimes and the Limits of International Law
Häftad, 2013
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In 1955 the Supreme Court ruled that veterans of the U.S. armed forces could not be court-martialled for overseas crimes that were not detected until after they had left military service. Territorial limitations placed such acts beyond the jurisdiction of civilian courts, and there was no other …
