| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) index. |
| Contents |
Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii. |
| Summary |
This study reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration - a distinct chapter in the process of US-led globalization. It shows how US policy makers and intellectuals, created a global culture of integration that represented the growth of US power in Asia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Orientalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Orientalism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Social aspects. |
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Public opinion. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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Asians in mass media.
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Asians in mass media. |
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Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Asia. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
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United States -- Relations -- Asia.
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Relations. |
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Asia -- Relations -- United States.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Klein, Christina, 1963- Cold War orientalism. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003 0520224698 0520232305 (DLC) 2002013310 (OCoLC)50554805 |
| ISBN |
9780520936256 (electronic book) |
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0520936256 (electronic book) |
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0585467900 (electronic book) |
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9780585467900 (electronic book) |
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1597345482 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781597345484 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780520224698 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520224698 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520232303 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0520232305 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1283422573 |
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9781283422574 |
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