Campaigning Culture And The Global Cold War

Author : Giles Scott-Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137598670
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War written by Giles Scott-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret patron that paid the bills.

Author : Peter J. Kuznick
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1560988959
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Cold War Culture written by Peter J. Kuznick and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values. By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex. This provocative dialogue by leading historians promises to reshape readers' understanding of America during the Cold War, revealing a complex interplay of historical norms and political influences.

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897343
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of the Cold War written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-05-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American?" As if in answer to this poignant question from John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Stephen Whitfield examines the impact of the Cold War—and its dramatic ending—on American culture in an updated version of his highly acclaimed study. In a new epilogue to this second edition, he extends his analysis from the McCarthyism of the 1950s, including its effects on the American and European intelligensia, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond. Whitfield treats his subject matter with the eye of a historian, reminding the reader that the Cold War is now a thing of the past. His treatment underscores the importance of the Cold War to our national identity and forces the reader to ask, Where do we go from here? The question is especially crucial for the Cold War historian, Whitfield argues. His new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies.

Author : Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521853648
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589147
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Author : Helen Laville
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134251890
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War written by Helen Laville and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures, it presents a radical new approach to the study of propaganda and American foreign policy and redefines the relationship between the state and private groups in the pursuit and projection of American foreign relations. In a series of valuable case studies, examining relationships between the state and women’s groups, religious bodies, labour, internationalist groups, intellectuals, media and students, this volume explores the construction of a state-private network not only as a practical method of communication and dissemination of information or propaganda, but also as an ideological construction, drawing upon specifically American ideologies of freedom and voluntarism. The case studies also analyze the power-relationship between the state and private groups, assessing the extent to which the state was in control of the relationship, and the extent to which private organizations exerted their independence. This book will be of great interest to students of Intelligence Studies, Cold War History and IR/security studies in general.

Author : Petra Goedde
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019537083X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Peace written by Petra Goedde and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During a live television broadcast with Harold MacMillan in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments." At that very moment international peace organizations, some with roots in the First World War and others responding to the post-World War II environment, were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace. These groups, which included the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) and the World Peace Council (WPC), mounted the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. The Politics of Peace examines both the ideals and pragmatic aspects of international relations during the early cold war. By tracing the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over this seemingly universal concept, it deconstructs the assumed binary between realist and idealist foreign policy approaches. It argues that a politics of peace emerged in the 1950s and '60s as a result of the gradual convergence between idealism and realism and through the dynamic interaction among three global actors: Cold War states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. As discourses on peace emerged in a variety of places, transnational networks emerged that challenged and eventually undermined the Cold War order. This book deterritorializes the Cold War by revealing the multiple divides that emerged within each Cold War camp, as peace activists challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the Cold War was both more ubiquitous and less territorial than previously assumed."--Provided by publisher.

Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075692
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global TV written by James Schwoch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutions

Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Constructions written by Christian G. Appy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; Time 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 copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Cold War written by Melvyn P. Leffler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition brings the collection right up to date, including the newest research from the Communist side of the Cold War and the most recent debates on culture, race and intelligence.Updated to include the latest debates and newest research, this second edition of a successful book brings together a truly international collection of articles and provides a fresh and thorough analysis of the origins of the Cold War that dominated the world political arena for forty-five years.The articles consider how and why the Cold War spread from Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and how groups, classes and élites used it to further their own interests.The Origins of the Cold War also examines the Communist side of the war and, concentrating on culture, race and intelligence, moves beyond earlier controversies and focuses on the interaction between:* geopolitics and threat perception* technology and strategy* idealology and social reconstruction* national economic reform and patterns of international trade* decolonization and national liberation.With a guide to further reading and a brand new section dealing with the Cold War crises in Iran, Turkey and Greece, The Origins of the Cold War has brought the Cold War bang up to date for today's students and scholars.