Title: Cold war constructions : the political culture of United States imperialism, 1945-1966 /
Authors: Appy, Christian G.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Cold War.; Political culture United States History; Imperialism History; United States Territories and possessions History; United States Foreign relations; United States Politics and government; United States Foreign relations Developing countries.; Developing countries Foreign relations United States.; United States Colonial question History
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.