Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37 by Friedman, Andrew
Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37 by Friedman, Andrew

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37

The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an...
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Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37 by Friedman, Andrew

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37

$100.35
Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37 by Friedman, Andrew

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia Volume 37

$100.35
Author: Andrew Friedman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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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Author: Andrew Friedman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/02/2013
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780520274655


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About the Author
Andrew Friedman is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Haverford College. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Journal of Urban History, the Baffler, and the Village Voice. He was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award.
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