Covert Capital : Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia /

The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Friedman, Andrew, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Intelligence service.
Federal areas within states.
Buildings.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
Federal areas within states > Virginia.
Intelligence service > United States > History.
Northern Virginia.
Virginia.
United States.
Virginie (Nord) > Constructions.
Virginia, Northern > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Covert Intimacies of Langley and Dulles; 2 At Home with the CIA; 3 Saigon Road: The Co-Constituted Landscape of Northern Virginia and South Vietnam; 4 The Fall of South Vietnam and the Transnational Intimacies of Falls Church, Arlington, and McLean; 5 Iran-Contra as Built Space: U.S. Imperial Tehran in Exile and Edge City's Central American Presence; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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