Mapping the Cold War : Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1469618540 Барни Т. Отображая холодную войну. Картография и оформление американского мирового влияния. В этой книге представлен взгляд на историю холодной войны через призму картографии. Тимоти Барни рассматривает карты, как центральный элемент в выражении идеологических конфликтов между американскими национальными притязаниями и международным окружением. Автор утверждает, что границы, масштабы, проекции и другие характеристики карт являлись прямыми средствами, с помощью которых дипломатическим и политическим элитам, широкой аудитории и общественным активистам пропагандировались конфликты между Севером и Югом, Востоком и Западом. Карты влияют на формирование идентичностей в мире, отражая расширение и модификацию геополитических альянсов. Исследуя как политические и ценностные установки получают пространственное представление в недавней истории США, Барни утверждает, что идеология холодной войны прослеживает себя в американских картах, начиная с их концептуализации и производства, а, затем, распространения в дипломатических политических кругах и популярных средствах массовой информации. Размышляя о последствиях пространственной пропаганды, книга отчетливо показывает, что даже в двадцать первом веке, американская политика и видение мира задается патологическим страхом перед советским блоком, который унаследован из той эпохи. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015 .-- 338 p. - ISBN: 1469618540 Barney T. Depicting the Cold War. Cartography and design of American world influence.This book provides a cartographic perspective on the history of the Cold War. Timothy Barney sees maps as central to expressing ideological conflicts between American national ambitions and the international environment. The author argues that the boundaries, scales, projections and other characteristics of the maps were direct means through which the conflicts between the North and the South, the East and the West were promoted to diplomatic and political elites, a wide audience and public activists. Maps influence the formation of identities in the world, reflecting the expansion and modification of geopolitical alliances. Exploring how political and value attitudes are spatially represented in recent US history, Barney argues that Cold War ideology traces itself in American maps, from conceptualization and production to dissemination in diplomatic political circles and popular media. Reflecting on the implications of spatial propaganda, the book clearly shows that even in the twenty-first century, American politics and worldviews are driven by a pathological fear of the Soviet bloc inherited from that era. 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 policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were "spatialized" in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War-era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world--and the maps that account for them--are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era. --Cover Introduction : the rhetorical lives of Cold War maps Iron albatross : air-age globalism and the bird's-eye view of American internationalism One world or two? : mapping a new foreign policy in the transition to Cold War Images of commitment and evidentiary weapons : maps and the visual construction of the Soviet Union Framing the Third World : American visions of "the South" and the cartography of development The end of cartography : state control and radical change in the nuclear geopolitics of the second Cold War Conclusion : from globalism to globalization: the afterlives of Cold War maps. Mapping The Cold War: Cartography And The Framing Of America S International Power