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Chomsky's challenge to American power : a guide for the critical reader /
"Noam Chomsky is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, but he is better known as a public intellectual: an iconoclastic, radical critic of US politics and foreign policy. Chomsky's Challenge examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Vietnam
- America's War in Vietnam: A Synopsis
- The Vietnam War According to Chomsky
- Conclusions
- Indochina Afterword: Chomsky and Cambodia
- 2. Cold War Empire
- American Foreign Policy during the Cold War: A Chomskian Overview
- America's Third World Empire: How Evil? How American?
- The American Empire: Some Observations
- 3. Domestic Power and Global Purpose
- The US Power Structure
- Explaining America's Cold War
- 4. Ideology, Illusion, and the Media
- The Propaganda Model: The FrameworkCase Studies
- The Propaganda Model in Perspective
- The Role of Intellectuals
- 5. America in the Post-Cold War World
- Empire Redux
- Interventions: Assets Turned Rogue
- Interventions: Humanitarianism and Kosovo
- Varieties of Terrorism
- Hegemony and Its Discontents
- Summary and Conclusions
- How Chomsky Has Been Right
- The Problems with Chomsky
- The Chomsky Conundrum
- Notes
- Index