Jason C Parker: 2 books
Hearts, Minds, Voices
US Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Cold War superpowers endeavored mightily to "win hearts and minds" abroad through what came to be called public diplomacy. While many target audiences were on the conflict's original front-lines in Europe, the vast majority resided in areas in the throes of decolonization and experienced the Cold...
Brother's Keeper
The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
In 1962, amidst the Cuban Revolution, Third World decolonization, and the African American freedom movement, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became the first British West Indian colonies to gain independence. These were not only the first new nations in the western hemisphere in more than fifty years;...