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A Righteous Smokescreen

- Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization

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"In the years immediately after World War II, the United States broadcast to the world not just its power but its values. Sam Lebovic here focuses on one of those professed ideals: the free flow of information. That trope became a proxy for America's special brand of imperial democracy, and it both abetted and constituted the spread of American culture and values worldwide. By studying visa and passport policy, funding for educational exchange and school construction, the purchase of land for embassies, the rights of international correspondents, and other mundane matters, Lebovic reveals globalization as a consequence of "quotidian world-ordering," not of high-minded abstractions like liberal internationalism"--

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780226816081
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 272
  • Utgitt:
  • 10. mai 2022
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 236x161x26 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 532 g.
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Leveringstid: 4-8 virkedager
Forventet levering: 6. januar 2025

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"In the years immediately after World War II, the United States broadcast to the world not just its power but its values. Sam Lebovic here focuses on one of those professed ideals: the free flow of information. That trope became a proxy for America's special brand of imperial democracy, and it both abetted and constituted the spread of American culture and values worldwide. By studying visa and passport policy, funding for educational exchange and school construction, the purchase of land for embassies, the rights of international correspondents, and other mundane matters, Lebovic reveals globalization as a consequence of "quotidian world-ordering," not of high-minded abstractions like liberal internationalism"--

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