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Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2008
765 kr
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American …
White World Order, Black Power Politics
The Birth of American International Relations
Häftad, 2017
340 kr
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"Defying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice."â• Carol Polsgrove â• American Historical ReviewRacism and …
Out of Oakland
Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War
Inbunden, 2017
1688 kr
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Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. â• Diplomatic HistoryIn Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata …
From Development to Dictatorship
Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important …
Out of Oakland
Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War
Häftad, 2017
253 kr
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Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. â• Diplomatic HistoryIn Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata …
Screening Enlightenment
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Häftad, 2017
470 kr
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During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945–1952), U.S. film studios—in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers—launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this …
Principles in Power
Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2020
630 kr
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Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. Walker …
Oil Money
Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988
Inbunden, 2021
659 kr
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In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East–US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars. During these two decades, American, Arab, and Iranian elites reconstituted the primary …
The Greek Fire
American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions
Inbunden, 2020
1688 kr
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In The Greek Fire, Maureen Connors Santelli explores the early global influence of the United States through its fascination with the Greek Revolution of the 1820s and 1830s. The American philhellenic movement pushed US interests into the eastern Mediterranean, shaping domestic conversations on …
Borderline Citizens
The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration
Inbunden, 2018
1639 kr
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Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of U.S. colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various …
Our Frontier Is the World
The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy
Inbunden, 2018
477 kr
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Mischa Honeck's Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century.The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its …
Arc of Containment
Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2019
1095 kr
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Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong …
Christian Imperialism
Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Häftad, 2018
429 kr
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In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire …
Cauldron of Resistance
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Häftad, 2018
471 kr
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In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided …
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji
Inbunden, 2019
1672 kr
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Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's …
The Gathering Storm
Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty and Chile's Cold War
Inbunden, 2020
688 kr
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In this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (1964–1970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of political polarization in Chile. At the heart of …
The Imperial Church
Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire
Inbunden, 2020
654 kr
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Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking …
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
Inbunden, 2020
1639 kr
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When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these …
Freedom Incorporated
Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization
Inbunden, 2020
688 kr
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Freedom Incorporated demonstrates how anticommunist political projects were critical to the United States' expanding imperial power in the age of decolonization, and how anticommunism was essential to the growing global economy of imperial violence in the Cold War era.In this broad historical …
Civilizational Imperatives
Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World
Inbunden, 2020
624 kr
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In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim South in the early twentieth century. Often referred to as Moroland, the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao were sites of intense US engagement …
Cinema and the Cultural Cold War
US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network
Av Sangjoon Lee
Inbunden, 2020
1688 kr
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Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when …
Cinema and the Cultural Cold War
US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network
Av Sangjoon Lee
Häftad, 2020
355 kr
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Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when …
The Ends of Modernization
Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era
Inbunden, 2021
746 kr
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The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights …
Developing Mission
Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
Av Joseph W. Ho
Inbunden, 2022
1688 kr
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In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years …
An American Brothel
Sex and Diplomacy During the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2022
543 kr
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In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometimes violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns.In 1966, US Senator J. William Fulbright …
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's …
Developing Mission
Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
Av Joseph W. Ho
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years …
Borderline Citizens
The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of U.S. colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various …
Freedom on the Offensive
Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War
Inbunden, 2022
630 kr
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In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had …
Dangerous Intercourse
Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946
Inbunden, 2023
746 kr
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In Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationships—from the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was …
