Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 316 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520232305
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0520224698
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sentimental Education: Creating a Global Imaginary of Integration; 2. Reader's Digest, Saturday Review, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic of Commitment; 3. How to Be an American Abroad: James Michener's The Voice of Asia and Postwar Mass Tourism; 4. Family Ties as Political Obligation: Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the Discourse of Adoption; 5. Musicals and Modernization: The King and I; 6. Asians in America: Flower Drum Song and Hawaii; Conclusion; Notes
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Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520232303
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cold War Orientalism : Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961
Language:
English
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