Britain and the First Cold War
Author | : Anne Deighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anne Deighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Deighton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349107565 |
This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.
Author | : Terry H. Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas Barnett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786723735 |
The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period.
Author | : John Jenks |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2006-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0748626751 |
This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War. Bribing editors, blackballing "e;unreliable"e; journalists, creating instant media experts through provision of carefully edited "e;inside information"e;, and exploiting the global media system to plant propaganda--disguised as news--around the world: these were all methods used by the British to try to convince the international public of Soviet deceit and criminality and thus gain support for anti-Soviet policies at home and abroad. Britain's shaky international position heightened the importance of propaganda. The Soviets and Americans were investing heavily in propaganda to win the "e;hearts and minds"e; of the world and substitute for increasingly unthinkable nuclear war. The British exploited and enhanced their media power and propaganda expertise to keep up with the superpowers and preserve their own global influence at a time when British economic, political and military power was sharply declining. This activity directly influenced domestic media relations, as officials used British media to launder foreign-bound propaganda and to create the desired images of British "e;public opinion"e; for foreign audiences. By the early 1950s censorship waned but covert propaganda had become addictive. The endless tension of the Cold War normalized what had previously been abnormal state involvement in the media, and led it to use similar tools against Egyptian nationalists, Irish republicans and British leftists. Much more recently, official manipulation of news about Iraq indicates that a behind-the-scenes examination of state propaganda's earlier days is highly relevant. John Jenks draws heavily on recently declassified archival material for this book, especially files of the Foreign Office's anti-Communist Information Research Department (IRD) propaganda agency, and the papers of key media organisations, journalists, politicians and officials. Readers will therefore gain a greater understanding of the depth of the state's power with the media at a time when concerns about propaganda and media manipulation are once again at the fore.
Author | : John Kent |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Till Geiger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351954768 |
Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western European countries. In many cases, the explanation for this phenomenon has been attributed to the high level of defence spending that successive British post-war governments adhered to. Yet is it fair to assume that Britain's relative economic decline could have been prevented if policy makers had not spent so much on defence? Examining aspects of the political economy and economic impact of British defence expenditure in the period of the first cold war (1945-1955), this book challenges these widespread assumptions, looking in detail at the link between defence spending and economic decline. In contrast to earlier studies, Till Geiger not only analyses the British effort within the framework of Anglo-American relations, but also places it within the wider context of European integration. By reconsidering the previously accepted explanation of the economic impact of the British defence effort during the immediate post-war period, this book convincingly suggests that British foreign policy-makers retained a large defence budget to offset a sense of increased national vulnerability, brought about by a reduction in Britain's economic strength due to her war effort. Furthermore, it is shown that although this level of military spending may have slightly hampered post-war recovery, it was not in itself responsible for the decline of the British economy.
Author | : M. Hopkins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2002-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140391978X |
Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the United States perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global commitments, post-war economic problems and somestic considerations obliged her on occasion to tackle the threat rather differently.
Author | : Stephen G. Rabe |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006-05-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807876968 |
In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.
Author | : Paul M. McGarr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107008158 |
This book traces the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan from independence in the 1940s, to the 1960s.