Author: June Namias
Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press
Keywords: frontier, american, ethnicity, gender, captives
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 080784408X
ISBN-13: 9780807844083

Author: Michael Taussig
Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press
Keywords: america, south, fetishism, commodity, devil
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807841064
ISBN-13: 9780807841068

Author: George Rude
Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press
Keywords: protest, popular, ideology
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1995-04-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807845140
ISBN-13: 9780807845141

Author: Gilbert Courtland Fite
Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press
Keywords: georgia, senator, russell, richard
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 2002-09
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0807854654
ISBN-13: 9780807854655

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