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UNINA9910777389903321 |
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Klein Christina <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Cold War orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / / Christina Klein |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003 |
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0-520-93625-6 |
1-283-42257-3 |
1-59734-548-2 |
9786613422576 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (574 p.) |
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Orientalism - United States - History - 20th century |
Public opinion - United States |
Asians in mass media |
Cold War - Social aspects - United States |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Asia Foreign public opinion, American |
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 |
United States Relations Asia |
Asia Relations United States |
United States Civilization 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index. |
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Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii. |
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In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., |
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competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends-the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power-were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration-a distinct chapter in the process of U.S.-led globalization. Through her analysis of a wide range of texts and cultural phenomena-including Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The King and I, James Michener's travel essays and novel Hawaii, and Eisenhower's People-to-People Program-Klein shows how U.S. policy makers, together with middlebrow artists, writers, and intellectuals, created a culture of global integration that represented the growth of U.S. power in Asia as the forging of emotionally satisfying bonds between Americans and Asians. Her book enlarges Edward Said's notion of Orientalism in order to bring to light a cultural narrative about both domestic and international integration that still resonates today. |
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UNINA9910966777103321 |
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Autore |
Mets David R |
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Airpower and technology : smart and unmanned weapons / / David R. Mets |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , 2008 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 |
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9798400608872 |
9786612416033 |
9781282416031 |
1282416030 |
9780313087387 |
0313087385 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) |
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Airplanes, Military - Armament |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Airpower Thinking and Technology before Hiroshima; 3. The Foundations of American Airpower; 4. The Battle of Britain/America Prepares; 5. American Airpower in World War II: Genesis of Precision-guided Weapons; 6. The Coming of the Balance of Terror: Heyday of the SAC Bombers; 7. Vietnam and the Coming of the Smart Weapon Age; 8. Reaction to Vietnam: Air and Space Theory and Doctrine, Technology, and Organization; 9. Reorganization for the Era of Smart Weapons and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; 10. Intelligence, Technology, and Information Warfare |
11. The Second Gulf War: Air and Space Combat at the Dawn of a New Century 12. The Future of Air and Space War: Speculations; Notes; Index |
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Since its earliest days, airpower has been one of the dominant forces used by the American military. This work covers the whole history of American aviation with special attention to the development of smart weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles and the influence they have had on the effectiveness of airpower. In a chronological treatment, emphasizing theory and doctrine, technology, tactics, and strategy. Mets details both combat experience and intellectual processes, lethal and non-lethal, involved in the preparation of airpower. |
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