Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966

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A collection of 11 papers which share the common goal of addressing the connections between domestic political culture and U.S. Cold War foreign policy. Appy (formerly history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology brings together the work of political, diplomatic, and cultural historians in order to foster an understanding of the complex interaction between culture and policy. Topics treated include the discourse of adoption and the Cold War commitment in Asia; class, caste, and status in Indo-American relations; The propaganda efforts of the United States in the disruption of the 1948 Italian elections; Cold War racial ideology; magazine's propaganda aid in the CIA's overthrow of Musaddiq (Mossadegh); and the identification of significant portions of the American populace with pro-Fidelista forces in the 1950s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Marilyn Young
A collection of original essays that explore the manner and means by which the Cold War was constructed and offer new and provocative insights into its bizarre and often brutal moments.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781558492189
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication date: 4/24/2000
  • Series: Culture, Politics and the Cold War Series
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 1,194,740
  • Product dimensions: 6.18 (w) x 9.23 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Struggling for the World 1
Slouching toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam 11
Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia 35
Feeding Beggars: Class, Caste, and Status in Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964 67
America's "Best Propagandists": Italian Americans and the 1948 "Letters to Italy" Campaign 89
Who's the Real Ambassador? Exploding Cold War Racial Ideology 110
The Road to Vietnam: Modernization Theory in Fact and Fiction 132
Discursive Subversions: Time Magazine, the CIA Overthrow of Musaddiq, and the Installation of the Shah 157
Eisenhower's Guatemalan Doodle, or: How to Draw, Deny, and Take Credit for a Third World Coup 183
"A World Made Safe for Diversity": The Vietnam Lobby and the Politics of Pluralism, 1945-1963 217
"We Are All Highly Adventurous": Fidel Castro and the Romance of the White Guerrilla, 1957-1958 238
From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American Expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966 257
Notes 271
Contributors 331
Index 333
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