Based on multi-lingual sources (German, Spanish, and English) and multi-archival research conducted in six different countries around the world. At the cutting edge of new research trends in the field of international/global history. The first work to analyze the important history of official visits to the United States as well as the selling of the "Alliance for Progress." Tells the global media history of both the space race and the Vietnam War. Goes beyond the domestic context and looks at foreign media and responses.
Based on multi-lingual sources (German, Spanish, and English) and multi-archival research conducted in six different countries around the world. At the cutting edge of new research trends in the field of international/global history. The first work to analyze the important history of official visits to the United States as well as the selling of the "Alliance for Progress." Tells the global media history of both the space race and the Vietnam War. Goes beyond the domestic context and looks at foreign media and responses.
Sönke Kunkel is Professor of North American History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. His publications include two edited volumes and numerous essays on U.S. foreign policy. He was research fellow at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Ohio State, and Jacobs University Bremen.
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List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Why Empires Need Pictures PART I: THE RISE OF THE VISUAL AGE Chapter 1. The Picture State and Its Innovators Chapter 2. Contact Points with Empire and the Globalizing of Media PART II: PICTURING EMPIRE Chapter 3. Prosperity: Official Visits to the United States Chapter 4. Progress: Popular Aspirations, the Global South, and the Politics of Imagination Chapter 5. Peace: Space Flights as "Pictorial Acts" Chapter 6. Power: Global Media and the Other History of the Vietnam War Conclusion: From Nixon to Obama, or: The Legacy of the 1960s Endnotes Bibliography Index
List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Why Empires Need Pictures PART I: THE RISE OF THE VISUAL AGE Chapter 1. The Picture State and Its Innovators Chapter 2. Contact Points with Empire and the Globalizing of Media PART II: PICTURING EMPIRE Chapter 3. Prosperity: Official Visits to the United States Chapter 4. Progress: Popular Aspirations, the Global South, and the Politics of Imagination Chapter 5. Peace: Space Flights as "Pictorial Acts" Chapter 6. Power: Global Media and the Other History of the Vietnam War Conclusion: From Nixon to Obama, or: The Legacy of the 1960s Endnotes Bibliography Index
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