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13 Οκτ 2024 · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies from 1945 to 1991. It was characterized by heightened military and political tensions, as well as economic competition, ideological rivalry, and proxy wars.
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American natio...
Maps are a medium for U.S. and the history of the Cold War. That it was not written by either a geogra-pher or historian might give us pause, although Barney’s work is very relevant to both.
21 Μαρ 2016 · On this view maps are simultaneously powerful and curiously passive objects, literally instruments or tools that get things done. Maps are a medium for U.S. power “by projecting crucial relationships between the tensions of art and science, space and place, and strategy and ideology” (p. 4).
1 Ιουν 2016 · In Mapping the Cold War Barney analyzes dozens of American maps produced and circulated during the Cold War era. He exposes their constructed and ideological nature as well as their constitutive and political functions.
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign ...
