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Covert Capital Landscapes of Denial and the Making of US Empire in the Suburbs
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- Condizione
- Accettabile
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- Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780520274655
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520274652
ISBN-13
9780520274655
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164761856
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Covert Capital : Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U. S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia
Subject
Landscape, Intelligence & Espionage, Regional, United States / General
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Architecture, History
Series
American Crossroads Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-015305
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
An original and entertaining narrative showing how Cold War planning and operations permanently changed the suburbs of Washington., Friedman_s sharp critique of America_s roles in Vietnam and Central America motivates and permeates the entire project. Readers will both learn a great deal about American covert operations in the twentieth century and be forced to think about the geography of the national capital as well as its surrounding suburbs in an entirely new way., Covert Capital makes an important intervention in the internationalization of U.S. suburban studies. . . . The book is a tour de force., Friedman's sharp critique of America's roles in Vietnam and Central America motivates and permeates the entire project. Readers will both learn a great deal about American covert operations in the twentieth century and be forced to think about the geography of the national capital as well as its surrounding suburbs in an entirely new way., The book's detailed case studies are compelling reading as the author desconstructs the secret world of the American intelligence community, public and private. Recommended.
Series Volume Number
37
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1: The Covert Intimacies of Langley and Dulles Chapter 2: At Home with the CIA Chapter 3: Saigon Road: the Co-Constituted Landscape of Northern Virginia and South Vietnam Chapter 4: The Fall of South Vietnam and the Transnational Intimacies of Falls Church, Arlington and McLean Chapter 5: Iran-Contra as Built Space: U.S. Imperial Tehran in Exile and Edge City's Central American Presence Conclusion
Synopsis
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
LC Classification Number
E741
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