Covert capital : landscapes of denial and the making of U.S. empire in the suburbs of Northern Virginia
(Adult Reference, Book)
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013].
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Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013].
Format
Adult Reference, Book
Physical Desc
416 pages : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Friedman, A. (2013). Covert capital: landscapes of denial and the making of U.S. empire in the suburbs of Northern Virginia . University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Friedman, Andrew, 1974-. 2013. Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia. University of California Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Friedman, Andrew, 1974-. Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia University of California Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Friedman, Andrew. Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia University of California Press, 2013.
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