Barney, Timothy.

Mapping the Cold War : cartography and the framing of America's international power / Timothy Barney. - xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the rhetorical lives of Cold War maps -- Iron albatross : air-age globalism and the bird's-eye view of American internationalism -- One world or two? : mapping a new foreign policy in the transition to Cold War -- Images of commitment and evidentiary weapons : maps and the visual construction of the Soviet Union -- Framing the Third World : American visions of "the South" and the cartography of development -- The end of cartography : state control and radical change in the nuclear geopolitics of the second Cold War -- Conclusion : from globalism to globalization: the afterlives of Cold War maps.

9781469618548 (pbk : alk. paper)

2014039875


Geopolitics--History--20th century.
Political geography--History--20th century.
Cartography--Political asepcts--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.
Cold War.


United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

JC319 / .B385 2015

327.73009/045