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Friedberg Aaron L. <1956-> |
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In the shadow of the garrison state [[electronic resource] ] : America's anti-statism and its Cold War grand strategy / / Aaron L. Friedberg |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2000 |
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1-283-38010-2 |
9786613380104 |
1-4008-4291-3 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Princeton studies in American politics |
Princeton studies in international history and politics |
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Power (Social sciences) |
State, The |
Political science |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Statism, Anti-Statism, and American Political Development -- CHAPTER TWO: The Cold War Founding -- CHAPTER THREE: The American Strategic Synthesis -- CHAPTER FOUR: Money -- CHAPTER FIVE: Manpower -- CHAPTER SIX: Supporting Industries -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Arms -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Technology -- CHAPTER NINE: Conclusions -- INDEX |
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War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources, including newly |
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available archival materials, Friedberg concludes that the "weakness" of the American state served as a profound source of national strength that allowed the United States to outperform and outlast its supremely centralized and statist rival: the Soviet Union. Friedberg's analysis of the U. S. government's approach to taxation, conscription, industrial planning, scientific research and development, and armaments manufacturing reveals that the American state did expand during the early Cold War period. But domestic constraints on its expansion--including those stemming from mean self-interest as well as those guided by a principled belief in the virtues of limiting federal power--protected economic vitality, technological superiority, and public support for Cold War activities. The strategic synthesis that emerged by the early 1960's was functional as well as stable, enabling the United States to deter, contain, and ultimately outlive the Soviet Union precisely because the American state did not limit unduly the political, personal, and economic freedom of its citizens. Political scientists, historians, and general readers interested in Cold War history will value this thoroughly researched volume. Friedberg's insightful scholarship will also inspire future policy by contributing to our understanding of how liberal democracy's inherent qualities nurture its survival and spread. |
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UNINA9910786489903321 |
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Autore |
Chow Yiu Fai |
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Sonic multiplicities [[electronic resource] ] : Hong Kong pop and the global circulation of sound and image / / Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet |
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Chicago, : Intellect, 2013 |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Popular music - China - Hong Kong |
Popular music - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Table; INTRODUCTION: SONIC MULTIPLICITIES; Sonic disappearances; What is going on?; Overview; Chapter 1: ME AND THE DRAGON: A LYRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE POLITICS OF CHINESENESS; Nationalistic songs; Another approach; Re-nationalization I: Descendants of the dragon; Re-nationalization II: Home and nation; Re-nationalization III: Performing acts (i) - writing against the grain; Re-nationalization IV: Performing acts (ii) - writing with a twist; Shoot the dragon |
Chapter 2: THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY IN GLOBAL POP - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POP FANS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND HONG KONGIntroduction; Globalization: A sense of locality; Fandom: On fans of local stars; Methodology; Production of locality: The linguistic and the heroic; Production of locality: The social, the charitable and the personal; Community; Charity; Character; Conclusion; Chapter 3: BLOWING IN THE CHINA WIND: ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESENESS IN HONG KONG'S ZHONGGUOFENG MUSIC VIDEOS; Destabilizing Chineseness; Feminizing Chineseness; Whither China Wind?; Chapter 4: SEX, MORALITY AND CANTOPOP |
Picture GateThe Edison Chen scandal; The Confucian cum Victorian ethics and the spirit of global capitalism; Spectacle and image; Eye see |
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you as I see you; Coda; Chapter 5: BUILDING MEMORIES - A STUDY OF POP VENUES IN HONG KONG; Fluid sounds; Monumental buildings; Building memories; The Coliseum; Belonging and temporality; Chapter 6: OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE CONTESTATIONS; The constative and the performative; Welcome to Olympic Beijing; Performing Olympic China from Hong Kong; Shanghai also welcomes you!; Criticality and popular culture |
Chapter 7: MUSIC, DESIRE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF CHINESENESS: FOLLOWING DIANAFollowing Diana; Diasporic hope: Rewriting migration narrative; Musical hope: Rewriting modernity narrative; Language; Music; Body; Methodological endnote; The flow; The bodily; The political; The personal; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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'Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book's focus on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows provides a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with, and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of "the rise of Ch |
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