
British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945–1955
Mapping the "Red Menace"
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British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945–1955
Mapping the "Red Menace"
About this book
During the early years of the Cold War, England and the United States both found themselves reassessing their relationship with their former ally the Soviet Union, and the status of their own "special relationship" was far from certain. As Jeffrey P. Stone argues, maps from British and American news journals from this period became a valuable tool for relating the new realities of the Cold War to millions of readers. These maps were vehicles for political ideology, revealing both obvious and subtle differences in how each country viewed global geopolitics at the onset of the Cold War. Richly illustrated with news maps, cartographic advertisements, and cartoons from the era, this book reveals the idiomatic political, cultural, and material differences contributing to these divergent cartographic visions of the Cold War world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: Cold War–Era News Maps in Historical Context
- 2. Trends in British and American News Maps by the End of World War II
- 3. Air Age Maps, the Shrinking Globe, and Anglo-American Relations
- 4. American Spheres, British Zones, and the “Special Relationship”
- 5. Cold War Germany in News Maps
- 6. Conclusions
- Back Matter