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Diplomacy and capitalism : the political economy of U.S. foreign relations /

Through a series of deeply researched case studies on the history of international political economy, Diplomacy and Capitalism takes measure of the significance and complexity of the crucial questions of wealth and power in the United States and the world in the twentieth century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dietrich, Christopher R. W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:Power, politics, and the world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. On Value and Values: Power, Progress, and Inequality in the American Century
  • 1. Investment and Invasion: The Clash Between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903-1936
  • 2. Gangster for Capitalism: Smedley Butler Abroad in the Age of Empire
  • 3. From Nashville to Port-au- Prince: Giles A. Hubert and the Agrarian New Deal in Postoccupation Haiti
  • 4. Weapons of the Strong: The Multinational Firm, Infrastructure, and the Neoliberal Legacies of the New Deal
  • 5. Rivers of Money: American Expert Influence on Pakistan and the Indus' Water Economy
  • 6. Productivity as a Way of Life: USIS Propaganda Films in Cold War Italy
  • 7. Selling Cooperative Capitalism Abroad: The U.S. Cooperative Movement and International Development During the Cold War
  • 8. Building a Capitalist Consciousness: Japan and Visions of Capitalist Asia
  • 9. Cash for Gold: The Role of Private Finance in Shaping Decolonization in South and Central Africa, 1960-1974
  • 10. Courting American Capital: Public Relations and the Selling of Ivorian Capitalism in the United States, 1960-1980
  • 11. Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate Lobbying After Three Mile Island, 1979-1985
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments