Cold war constructions: the political culture of United States imperialism, 1945-1966

Introduction: struggling for the world / Christian G. Appy

Slouching toward Bethlehem: culture, diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam / Mark Bradley

Family ties and political obligation: the discourse of adoption and the Cold War commitment to Asia / Christina Klein

Feeding beggars: class, caste, and status in Indo-U.S. relations, 1947-1964 / Andrew J. Rotter

America's "best propagandists": Italian Americans and the 1948 "letters to Italy" campaign / Wendy L. Wall

Who's the real ambassador? exploding Cold War racial ideology / Penny M. Von Eschen

The road to Vietnam: modernization theory in fact and fiction / Jonathan Nashel

Discursive subversions: Time Magazine, the CIA overthrow of Musaddiq, and the installation of the Shah / John Foran

Eisenhower's Guatemalan doodle, or: how to draw, deny, and take credit for a third world coup / Christian G. Appy

"A world made safe for diversity": the Vietnam lobby and the politics of pluralism, 1945-1963 / James T. Fisher

"We are all highly adventurous": Fidel Castro and the romance of the white guerrilla, 1957-1958 / Van Gosse

From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966 / Kevin Gaines.