Diplomacy and Capitalism : : The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations /

Diplomacy and Capitalism : : The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations / / ed. by Christopher R.W. Dietrich.

At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved together and shaped each other at different levels of international, national, and local transf...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Bamba, Abou B.,
Crisanti, Giulia,
Dietrich, Christopher R. W.,
Friedman, Max Paul,
Fronczak, Joseph,
Hickmott, Alec Fazackerley,
Miller, Jennifer M.,
O’Malley, Alanna,
Sackley, Nicole,
Sarkar, Jayita,
Sattar, Erum Khalid,
Smith, Jason Scott,
HerausgeberIn:
Dietrich, Christopher R.W.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Power, Politics, and the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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