Author: Darlene Rivas
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: venezuela, rockefeller, nelson, capitalist, missionary
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 080785350X
ISBN-13: 9780807853504

The first work to draw on Nelson A. Rockefeller’s newly available personal papers as well as research in Latin American archives, Missionary Capitalist details Rockefeller’s efforts to promote economic development in Latin America, particularly Venezuela, from the late 1930s through the 1950s. Rockefeller’s involvement in the region began in 1936 with his investment in Creole Petroleum, the Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil. Almost immediately, he began trying to influence North Americans’ individual, corporate, and government relationships with Latin Americans. Thr

Author: Reinhold Wagnleitner
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: war, austria, states, second, world, united, mission, colonization, cold, cultural, coca
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1994-11
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0807821497
ISBN-13: 9780807821497

Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that ’Americanization’ was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States.Wagnleitner traces the intimate relationship between the political and economic reconstruction of a democratic Austria and the parallel process of cultural assimilation. Initially, U.S. cultural programs had been developed to i

Author: Michael S. Sherry
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: conspiracy, caravan, book, imagined, culture, artists, modern, american, gay
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807831212
ISBN-13: 9780807831212

Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-20th-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American" on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were "out," their sexuality caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant antihomosexual attitudes. Michael Sherry offers a sophisticated analysis of the tension between the nation’s simultaneous dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of

Author: John McGowan
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: youngs, lehman, series, lillian, eugene, liberalism, interpretation, time, american
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807831719
ISBN-13: 9780807831717

Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism’s critics. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism’s basic principles, values, and commitments. He explains that the liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide f

Author: Michael H. Hunt
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: global, dominance, caravan, book, wielded, gained, ascendancy, united, states, american
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0807830909
ISBN-13: 9780807830901

A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created by recent U.S. policy: what road did Americans travel to reach their current global preeminence?

Author: Chad Montrie
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: united, states, environment, work, living, making
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-05-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0807831972
ISBN-13: 9780807831977

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans’ evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers’ rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.Chad Montrie offers six case studies: textile "mill girls" in antebellum New England, plantation slaves and newly freed sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, homesteading women in the Kansas and Nebraska grasslands, native-born coal miners in southern Appalachia, autoworkers in Detroit, and Mexican and

Author: Russell A. McClintock
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: war, civil, america, secession, northern, decision, lincoln, response
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0807831883
ISBN-13: 9780807831885

When Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, Russell McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus.From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted