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Draws on Walter LaFeber's first book, The New Empire (1963), to argue that the Cold War transformed the new empire into an old one that distributed communication technologies within a system of extra-territorial engagements intended to control people outside US borders. The informal empire that existed during the multipolarity era became a formal one in the age of bipolarity, a shift that was most noticeable in the realm of audiovisual culture. Washington's Cold War work in film & TV is described, along with the impact of US cultural diplomacy on the field of American Studies & the dominance of Good Neighbor discourse in East-West & US-Mexico relations. Special attention is given to Project Pedro, a US Information Agency venture that involved US assistance in the production of Mexico national newsreels & movies. Project Pedro's history illustrates the limits of both US power in the Cold War & historiographical constructions of that power. The need for scholars studying imperial expansion to pay greater attention to the impact of culture is emphasized. 4 Figures. J. Lindroth

<p>Examina el papel que el cine desempeño en las relaciones políticas, ideológicas y culturales entre México y Estados Unidos en la época en que se consolidaron las bases para el desarrollo de vínculos de colaboración estable entre ambos países en los años cincuenta. </p>

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult

Frontmatter -- American Encounters/Globallnteractions -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: Theoretical Concerns -- Close Encounters: Toward a New Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations -- The Decentered Center and the Expansionist Periphery: The Paradoxes of Foreign-Local Encounter -- The Enterprise of Knowledge: Representational Machines of Informal Empire -- II: Empirical Studies -- Landscape and the Imperial Subject: US. Images of the Andes, 1859- 1930 -- Love in the Tropics: Marriage, Divorce, and the Construction of Benevolent Colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 -- Mercenaries in the Theater of War: Publicity, Technology, and the Illusion of Power during the Brazilian Naval Revolt of 1893 -- The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 -- The Cult of the Airplane among US. Military Men and Dominicans during the US. Occupation and the Trujillo Regime -- Central American Encounters with Rockefeller Public Health, 1914-1921 -- Living in Macondo: Economy and Culture in a United Fruit Company Banana Enclave in Colombia -- From Welfare Capitalism to the Free Market in Chile: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Copper Mines -- Everyday Forms of Transnational Collaboration: US. Film Propaganda in Cold War Mexico -- Gringo Chickens with Worms: Food and Nationalism in the Dominican Republic -- III: Final Reflections -- Turning to Culture -- Social Fields and Cultural Encounters -- From Reading to Seeing: Doing and Undoing Imperialism in the Visual Arts -- Contributors -- Index