Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles aga...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had...

Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in ...

Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

Unique insight into the unseen history and evolution of the collaboration between the US Department of Defense and the CIA.Publisher: The Universit...

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James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrati...

Reducere. Commonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle a...

Reducere. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

'Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordi...

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This book examines major political movements during the Cold War through the rhetorical trope of the Nazi analogy. The examination pits ideas conce...

Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but als...

Reducere. The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affect...

Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many 'hot' conflicts did occur, some with ...

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The dramatic, untold story of a brilliant team, the world's first digital electronic computer, and the race to decrypt the Nazis' toughest code Pla...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul OzorakIllustration(s): 170 illustrationsNumber of pages: 363Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 164 x...

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Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

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The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on music and communism in twentieth-century Britain and the Communist Bloc....

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Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s): Richard MossNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

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