Confronting America by Alessandro Brogi
Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United States, Alessandro Brogi's original study reveals how the United States was forced by political opposition within these two core Western countries to reassess its own anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology.Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and Italian communists' own legitimacy and existence. Their anti-Americanism was mostly dogmatic and driven by the Soviet Union, but it was also, at crucial times, subtle and ambivalent, nurturing fascination with the American culture of dissent. The staunchly anticommunist United States, Brogi argues, found a successful balance to fighting the communist threat in France and Italy by employing diplomacy and fostering instances of mild dissent in both countries. Ultimately, both the French and Italian communists failed to adapt to the forces of modernization that stemmed both from indigenous factors and from American influence. Confronting America illuminates the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts behind the U.S.-communist confrontation.
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A Failed Empire
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Mao's China and the Cold War
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Germany's Cold War
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The Sino-Soviet Alliance
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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy
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U.S. Intervention in British Guiana
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Hanoi's War
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Dealing with the Devil
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A Bitter Peace
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Armageddon Insurance
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Cold War Holidays
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Soviet Soft Power in Poland
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Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
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Shadow Cold War
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Winning the Third World
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Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War
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Visions of Freedom
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Imagining Vietnam and America
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Deng Xiaoping's Long War
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Revolutionaries for the Right
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Modernization As Ideology
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Gold, Dollars, and Power
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China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
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Containing Arab Nationalism
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Cold War Liberation
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The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy
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France Restored
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Grand Designs and Visions of Unity
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Nation Building in South Korea
Alessandro Brogi is professor of history at the University of Arkansas, USA and author of two previous books, L'Italia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo and A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781469622118 |
| ISBN 10 | 1469622114 |
| Title | Confronting America |
| Author | Alessandro Brogi |
| Series | The New Cold War History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 2014-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 552 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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