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Unofficial Ambassadors
Donna Alvah
其他書名
American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965
出版NYU Press, 2007-04
主題Family & Relationships / Military FamiliesHistory / GeneralHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / Cold WarHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / International Relations / DiplomacySocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN08147050149780814705018
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XMGiEPjoZ1cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The middle of today's multi-sited American wars is a perfect time, I think, to read Donna Alvah's surprising history of U.S. military wives' and children's political roles in the Cold War. Alvah uses a deft comparison of U.S. policies toward military families--and these women's own ideas about what they were doing--on American bases in 1940s-1970s Japan and Germany to reveal how 'soft power' was as crucial as 'hard power' in waging war."--Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire"Combining keen historical insight with the voices of overseas military family members, Donna Alvah demonstrates how service wives and children, as unofficial cold warriors, forged relationships across national boundaries. Although these relationships often reflected and reinforced racial hierarchies and imperial aims, they 'softened' the hard edges of cold war policies. Alvah's impressive and well-written account shines light on a time when American leaders understood that friendship mattered in foreign relations--a lesson well worth learning today." --Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War EraAs thousands of wives and children joined American servicemen stationed at overseas bases in the years following World War II, the military family represented a friendlier, more humane side of the United States' campaign for dominance in the Cold War. Wives in particular were encouraged to use their feminine influence to forge ties with residents of occupied and host nations. In this untold story of Cold War diplomacy, Donna Alvah describes how these "unofficial ambassadors" spread the United States' perception of itself and its imageof world order in the communities where husbands and fathers were stationed, cultivat