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Music in America's Cold War diplomacy
During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America’s improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America’s soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of \"musical diplomacy.\"
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A Delicate Relationship : The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
\"In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and heightened nationalist activities that emerged in the wake of World War II to the Cold War concern with domino states to the rise of human rights policy in the 1980s and beyond, Clymer demonstrates how Burma/Myanmar has fit into the broad patterns of U.S. foreign policy and yet has never been fully integrated into diplomatic efforts in the region of Southeast Asia\"-- Publisher's Web site.
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The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s
Barbara Zanchetta analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of détente during the Nixon administration to the policy's crisis and fall during the final years of the Carter presidency. This study traces lines of continuity among the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and assesses its effects on the ongoing redefinition of America's international role in the post-Vietnam era. Against the background of superpower cooperation in arms control, Dr Zanchetta analyzes aspects of the global bipolar competition, including US-China relations, the turmoil in Iran and Afghanistan, and the crises in Angola and the Horn of Africa. In doing so, she unveils both the successful transformation of American international power during the 1970s and its long-term problematic legacy.
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France and the American Civil War
France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France. Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.
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Cuba : an American history
\"In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raúl Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. In both countries, the time is ripe for a new reckoning with Cuba's history and its relationship to the United States. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious and moving chronicle of more than five hundred years of Cuban history, reconceived and written for a moment when history itself seems up for grabs. Starting on the eve of the arrival of Columbus and ending with the 2020 US presidential election, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of modern Cuba, with its dramatic history of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Throughout, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between Cuba and its neighbor to the north, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways Cuba has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This, then, is a story of Cuba that will also give American readers unexpected insights into the history of their own country. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on over thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States-as well as the author's own extensive travel in Cuba over the same period-this is a stunning and monumental history of Cuba like no other\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s
In Global Inequality and American
Foreign Policy in the 1970s , Michael
Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New
International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from
Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony
over an international economic order under attack abroad and
lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that
supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power
from the global North to the global South. Their weapon was control
over the major commodities-in particular oil-that undergirded the
prosperity of the United States and Europe after World War II.
Using newly available archival sources, as well as interviews
with key administration officials, Franczak reveals how the NIEO
and \"North-South dialogue\" negotiations brought global inequality
to the forefront of US national security. The challenges posed by
NIEO became an inflection point for some of the greatest economic,
political, and moral crises of 1970s America, including the end of
golden age liberalism and the return of the market, the splintering
of the Democratic Party and the building of the Reagan coalition,
and the rise of human rights in US foreign policy in the wake of
the Vietnam War. The policy debates and decisions toward the NIEO
were pivotal moments in the histories of three ideological
trends-neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and human rights-that formed
the core of America's post-Cold War foreign policy.
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Sacred Interests
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as
Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world,
U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about
Islam began to shape their responses to world events. In Sacred
Interests , Karine V. Walther excavates the deep history of
American Islamophobia, showing how negative perceptions of Islam
and Muslims shaped U.S. foreign relations from the Early Republic
to the end of World War I. Beginning with the Greek War of
Independence in 1821, Walther illuminates reactions to and
involvement in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the efforts to
protect Jews from Muslim authorities in Morocco, American colonial
policies in the Philippines, and American attempts to aid
Christians during the Armenian Genocide. Walther examines the
American role in the peace negotiations after World War I, support
for the Balfour Declaration, and the establishment of the mandate
system in the Middle East. The result is a vital exploration of the
crucial role the United States played in the Islamic world during
the long nineteenth century--an interaction that shaped a
historical legacy that remains with us today.
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