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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Foreign Relations"”.
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… the United States with the complex interrelationship between slavery and progress. Dubbed the Great Experiment, British abolition held the possibility of demonstrating free labor more profitable than slavery. Besides elating the world’s abolitionists, always hopeful of equating material …
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Project Apollo, Cold War diplomacy and the American framing of global interdependence
… critical role that space exploration played in American foreign relations and national image making in the 1960s. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, Project Apollo was established, in large part, as a means of demonstrating American power and promoting technocratic values in an …
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Empire of energy : environment, geopolitics, and American technology before the age of oil
… By focusing on energy, I reconceptualize the American overseas empire as neither inevitable nor geographically predetermined. I trace how coal shaped U.S. expansion, how this expansion influenced ideas about national security, and how these security concerns affected the global environment. …
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HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE: THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS CORPS AND IMAGINED AMERICAN ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, 1902-1941
<p>The project of American economic imperialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century was first and foremost an imagined enterprise. This dissertation examines the role of the Student Interpreters Corps (SIC) in this endeavor. Studying language-trained intermediaries, this …
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Aid or Abuse? A Review of U.S. Police Assistance Programs in Latin America During the Early Cold War
… throughout Latin America. Several Latin American Truth Commissions claimed the OPS’s work contributed to some of the most heinous human rights violations committed in South and Central America during the Cold War.</p> <p>This thesis asks a series of questions. What was the OPS and what …