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.