The New Frontier, the Great Society, and American Imperialism in Oceania
01 Feb 2002-Pacific Historical Review (University of California Press Journals)-Vol. 71, Iss: 1, pp 91-125
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TL;DR: The colonial order: material life in the colonial world a colonial policy "A trace of uncertainty, doubt and fear" - Australia and Asia in the Cold War 1954 - to the brink as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Part 1 The colonial order: material life in the colonial world a colonial policy "A trace of uncertainty, doubt and fear" - Australia and Asia in the Cold War 1954 - to the brink. Part 2 Preparing for war: Ngo Dinh Diem - "How to revive a war", 1954-1966 the logics of intervention - 1957-1966 the logics of dissent 1975-1966 1966 - the Cold War mould cracks. Part 3 Counter-revolution and the village - 1966-1969 rice, place and revolution morbid symptoms - Australia, 1967-1969 the left revived. Part 4 The moratorium things fall apart.
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23 Jul 2019
TL;DR: The politics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women's fiction: history, exoticism and romance as discussed by the authors, is a project of the FFI/FEDER (FFI2016-75130-P) project.
Abstract: Project “The politics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women’s fiction:History, Exoticism and Romance,” supported by AEI/FEDER, UE (FFI2016-75130-P)
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15 May 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration, from such programs as the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress to an eventual recasting of Manifest Destiny and imperlalism.
Abstract: Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism. |Explores how the social science concept of global modernization shaped American foreign policy in the Kennedy administration, from such programs as the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress to an eventual recasting of Manifest Destiny and imperlalism.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The most comprehensive history of that administration's progressive embroilment in the Cold War can be found in this article, which is based on declassified documents from the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of Defense, and some intelligence agencies.
Abstract: In the United States the Cold War shaped our political culture, our institutions, and our national priorities. Abroad, it influenced the destinies of people everywhere. It divided Europe, split Germany, and engulfed the Third World. It led to a feverish arms race and massive sales of military equipment to poor nations. For at least four decades it left the world in a chronic state of tension where a miscalculation could trigger nuclear holocaust. Documents, oral histories, and memoirs illuminating the goals, motives, and fears of contemporary U.S. officials were already widely circulated and studied during the Cold War, but in the 1970s a massive declassification of documents from the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of Defense, and some intelligence agencies reinvigorated historical study of this war which became the definitive conflict of its time. While many historians used these records to explore specialized topics, this author marshals the considerable available evidence on behalf of an overall analysis of national security policy during the Truman years. To date, it is the most comprehensive history of that administration's progressive embroilment in the Cold War.
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: McCormick as discussed by the authors argues that America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution, the real threat to global peace and prosperity, and describes how the end of the Cold War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.
Abstract: Did the United States "win" the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution-the real threat to global peace and prosperity. Revised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the Cold War affected the United States's global role as well as suggesting what possibilities lie ahead for a restructured world-system.
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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: These islands rising from wave's edge as discussed by the authors have captivated the imagination of the papalagi, or the white man in his quest for El Dorado, a Southern Continent, and the Noble Savage in a tropical Eden.
Abstract: These islands rising from wave’s edge —
blue myth brooding in orchid,
fern and banyan, fearful gods
awaiting birth from blood clot
into stone image and chant —
to bind their wounds, bury
their journey’s dead, as I
watched from shadow root, ready
for birth generations after …
(from ‘Inside us the Dead’)
I belong to Oceania — or, at least, I am rooted in a fertile portion of it — and it nourishes my spirit, helps to define me, and feeds my imagination. A detached objective analysis I will leave to the sociologist and all the other -ologists who have plagued Oceania since she captivated the imagination of the papalagi, or the white man in his quest for El Dorado, a Southern Continent, and the Noble Savage in a tropical Eden. Objectivity is for such uncommitted gods. My commitment will not allow me to confine myself to so narrow a vision. So vast, so fabulously varied a scatter of islands, nations, cultures, mythologies and myths, so dazzling a creature, Oceania deserves more than an attempt at mundane fact; only the imagination in free flight can hope — if not to contain her — to grasp some of her shape, plumage and pain.
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