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Citizenship in Cold War America : The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent /

Publisher's description: In the wake of 9/11, many Americans have deplored the dangers to liberty posed by a growing surveillance state. In this book, Andrea Friedman moves beyond the standard security/liberty dichotomy, weaving together often forgotten episodes of early Cold War history to rev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Friedman, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Citizenship stories in exceptional times
  • Internal security, national security : psychological citizenship in the Cold War era
  • The case of the war bride : liberal citizenship and human rights in the national security state
  • The right to earn a living : loyalty, race, and economic citizenship
  • "A dependent independence and a dominated dominion" : empire and semi-citizenship on the Cold War stage
  • "The show of violence" : social citizenship, democracy, and the remaking of national security
  • Conclusion: Exceptions, exceptionalism, and US citizenship.