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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Global Cold War"”.
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
… tensions that pressurized Egypt in the global Cold War era as it sought independence from imperial influence, and that they capture the ways in which artists in Egypt incorporated particular understandings of temporality into their work during a time of modernization. A close …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
… the developing world were crucial aspects of the global Cold War. Economic, political, religious, and social factors created tensions at the international, national, and local levels that drove conflict. Scholars can gain an increased understanding of these characteristics through the study of …
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… It argues that the US experience in the Vietnam War acted as a causal factor in the formulation of its Cambodian policy during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. From taking power in April 1975 to their removal by the Vietnamese in January 1979, the Khmer Rouge initiated a …
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American social science and the psychology of development in India, 1940s-1960s
… and the forms of knowledge produced by post-war American social science. Foregrounding the concept of ‘psychologized development’, the thesis focuses in particular on the ways in which Indian elites – including government officials, intellectuals, industrialists and more – drew on American …
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… decades, literary studies has experienced a global turn, often understood as a move beyond national paradigms of analysis, which are deemed to be narrow and particularistic. Although wary of the tacit universalizing tendencies of global frames, scholars of race and postcoloniality have …
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Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism
… that sprang up after the end of the Second World War. Taken alone, sentiments like these align with a general expression of Christian charity and goodwill, but when placed in context, Pierce’s prayer represents a revolution in conservative evangelical views of the poor and needy. However, the …
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
… the tensions, successes, and anxieties of Cold War science. In the mid-20th century, some radio astronomers in the US and USSR believed CETI would bring about global unity by reminding humans we are one species in a vast, possibly populated cosmos. Using a combination of oral history and …