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Building The Cold War
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Author : Annabel Jane Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Building The Cold War
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Author : Annabel Jane Wharton
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001
Building The Cold War written by Annabel Jane Wharton and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were quite literally "little Americas." For American businessmen and tourists, a Hilton Hotel—with the comfortable familiarity of an English-speaking staff, a restaurant that served cheeseburgers and milkshakes, trans-Atlantic telephone lines, and, most important, air-conditioned modernity—offered a respite from the disturbingly alien. For impoverished local populations, these same features lent the Hilton a utopian aura. The Hilton was a space of luxury and desire, a space that realized, permanently and prominently, the new and powerful presence of the United States. Building the Cold War examines the architectural means by which the Hilton was written into the urban topographies of the major cities of Europe and the Middle East as an effective representation of the United States. Between 1953 and 1966, Hilton International built sixteen luxury hotels abroad. Often the Hilton was the first significant modern structure in the host city, as well as its finest hotel. The Hiltons introduced a striking visual contrast to the traditional architectural forms of such cities as Istanbul, Cairo, Athens, and Jerusalem, where the impact of its new architecture was amplified by the hotel's unprecedented siting and scale. Even in cities familiar with the Modern, the new Hilton often dominated the urban landscape with its height, changing the look of the city. The London Hilton on Park Lane, for example, was the first structure in London that was higher than St. Paul's cathedral. In his autobiography, Conrad N. Hilton claimed that these hotels were constructed for profit and for political impact: "an integral part of my dream was to show the countries most exposed to Communism the other side of the coin—the fruits of the free world." Exploring everything the carefully drafted contracts for the buildings to the remarkable visual and social impact on their host cities, Wharton offers a theoretically sophisticated critique of one of the Cold War's first international businesses and demonstrates that the Hilton's role in the struggle against Communism was, as Conrad Hilton declared, significant, though in ways that he could not have imagined. Many of these postwar Hiltons still flourish. Those who stay in them will learn a great deal about their experience from this new assessment of hotel space.
Cold War
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language : en
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Release Date : 2003
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Building A Ruin
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Author : Yakov Feygin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-11
Building A Ruin written by Yakov Feygin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-11 with History categories.
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed. What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological—communism was simply destined to fail. When Yakov Feygin studied the question, he came to another conclusion: at least one crucial factor was a deep contradiction within the Soviet political economy brought about by the country’s attempt to transition from Stalinist mass mobilization to a consumer society. Building a Ruin explores what happened in the Soviet Union as institutions designed for warfighting capacity and maximum heavy industrial output were reimagined by a new breed of reformers focused on “peaceful socioeconomic competition.” From Khrushchev on, influential schools of Soviet planning measured Cold War success in the same terms as their Western rivals: productivity, growth, and the availability of abundant and varied consumer goods. The shift was both material and intellectual, with reformers taking a novel approach to economics. Instead of trumpeting their ideological bona fides and leveraging their connections with party leaders, the new economists stressed technical expertise. The result was a long and taxing struggle for the meaning of communism itself, as old-guard management cadres clashed with reformers over the future of central planning and the state’s relationship to the global economic order. Feygin argues that Soviet policymakers never resolved these tensions, leading to stagnation, instability, and eventually collapse. Yet the legacy of reform lingers, its factional dynamics haunting contemporary Russian politics.
Cold War Building For Nuclear Confrontation 1946 1989
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Author : Wayne D. Cocroft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Cold War Building For Nuclear Confrontation 1946 1989 written by Wayne D. Cocroft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
To Build A Better World
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Author : Philip Zelikow
language : en
Publisher: Twelve
Release Date : 2020-09-08
To Build A Better World written by Philip Zelikow and has been published by Twelve this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Political Science categories.
"A deeply researched international history of how a divided world ended and our present one was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing." --Back cover.
State Building In Cold War Asia
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Author : Qingfei Yin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-06
State Building In Cold War Asia written by Qingfei Yin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06 with History categories.
Regional Orders
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Author : David A. Lake
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Regional Orders written by David A. Lake and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Political Science categories.
Conflict among nations for forty-five years after World War II was dominated by the major bipolar struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. With the end of the Cold War; states in differing legions of the world are taking their affairs more into their own hands and working out new arrangements for security that best suit their needs. This trend toward new &"regional orders&" is the subject of this book, which seeks both to document the emergence and strengthening of these new regional arrangements and to show how international relations theory needs to be modified to take adequate account of their salience in the world today. Rather than treat international politics as everywhere the same, or each region as unique, this hook adopts a comparative approach. It recognizes that, while regions vary widely in their characteristics, comparative analysis requires a common typology and set of causal variables. It presents theories of regional order that both generalize about regions and predict different patterns of conflict and cooperation from their individual traits. The editors conclude that, in the new world of regional orders, the quest for universal principles of foreign policy by great powers like the United States is chimerical and dangerous. Regional orders differ, and policy artist accommodate these differences if it is to succeed. Contributors are Brian L. Job, Edmund J. Keller, Yuen Foong Khong, David A. Lake, Steven E. Lobell, David R. Mares, Patrick M. Nlotgan. Paul A. Papayoanou, David J. Pervin, Philip G. Roeder, Richard Rosecrance and Peter Schott, Susan Shirk, Etel Solingen, and Arthur A. Stein.
Building The Cold War Consensus
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Author : Benjamin Fordham
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998-07-06
Building The Cold War Consensus written by Benjamin Fordham and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-06 with Business & Economics categories.
DIVExplains the basis in domestic politics of the political consensus in support of large defense spending in the early stages of the Cold War /div
The Cold War U S Army
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Author : Ingo Trauschweizer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Cold War U S Army written by Ingo Trauschweizer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Focuses on the Seventh Army in West Germany--the largest and best-prepared field army ever deployed by the U.S. in peacetime--to show how the U.S. army redefined its identity, structure, and mission in order to avoid obsolescence during the Cold War era of nuclear weapons and air power.