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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : the rhetorical lives of Cold War maps
• Iron albatross : air-age globalism and the bird's-eye view of American internationalism
• One world or two? : mapping a new foreign policy in the transition to Cold War
• Images of commitment and evidentiary weapons : maps and the visual construction of the Soviet Union
• Framing the Third World : American visions of "the South" and the cartography of development
• The end of cartography : state control and radical change in the nuclear geopolitics of the second Cold War
• Conclusion : from globalism to globalization: the afterlives of Cold War maps.

Author/Creator:

Barney, Timothy , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mapping the Cold War: cartography and the framing of America's international power [by Barney, T.]

Subjects:

Geopolitics — History — 20th century

Political geography — History — 20th century

Cartography — Political asepcts — History — 20th century

United States — Foreign relations — 1945-1989

World politics — 1945-1989

Cold War

Cold War (1945-1989)

1900-1999

Cartography

Diplomatic relations

World politics

Geopolitics

Political geography

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

JC319 .B385 2015

ISBNs:

9781469618548
1469618540
9781469618555 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40024730207

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014039875

OCLC Numbers:

898206110