World’s Fair New York 1939 – Shriner

Gelernter, David Hillel. 1939, the Lost World of the Fair. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

 

Kargon, Robert H., Molella, Arthur P., Low, Morris, Fiss, Karen. World’s Fairs on the Eve of War; Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937-1942. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015.

 

Wurts, Richard. New York World’s Fair 1939/1940 in 155 photographs. Selection arrangement and text by Stanley Appelbaum. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977.

 

Harrison, Helen A. Dawn of a New Day: the New York World’s Fair 1939/40. New York: New York University Press, 1980.

 

Iriye, Akira. The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume 3: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

 

Rydell, Robert W., Findling, John. E., Pelle, Kimberly D., Fair America: World’s Fair’s in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

 

The Queens Museum, Remembering the Future: The New York World’s Fair from 1939 to 1964. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1989.

 

Mauro, James, Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World’s Fair on the Brink of War. New York: Ballentine Books/Random House, Inc., 2010.

 

Roche, Maurice. Mega-Events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture. London: Routledge, 1998.

 

Greenhalgh, Paul. Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.

 

Swift, Anthony. “The Soviet World of Tomorrow at the New York World’s Fair, 1939.” The Russian Review, Vol. 57, No. 3. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, July 1998.

 

 

Saudi Oil

 

Al-Chalabi, Fadhil J., Oil Policies, Oil Myths: Analysis and Memoir of an OPEC Insider (London; I.B. Taurus; 2009).

 

Gardner, Lloyd C., Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East after WWII (New York; New Press; 2009).

 

Gilbar, Gad G., The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond: Essays in Political Economy (London; Frank Cass; 1997).

 

Little, Douglas, “Opening the Door: Business, Diplomacy, and America’s Stake in Middle East Oil” in American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Chapel Hill; London; 2004).

 

Morton, Michael Quentin, Buraimi: The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia (London; I.B. Taurus; 2013).

 

Painter, David S., “Oil and the American Century”, The Journal of American History, 99, 1, (2012).

 

Rustow, Dankwart A., Oil and Turmoil: American Faces OPEC and the Middle East (New York; Norton; 1982).

 

Vitalis, Robert, America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford; Stanford UP; 2007).

 

Chile

Gradin, Greg. Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.

Gustafson, Kristen. Hostile Intent: US Covert Operations in Chile, 1964-1974. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007.

Kizner, Stephen. Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. New York: Times Book, 2006.

Muñoz, Heraldo, and Carlos Portales. Elusive Friendship: A Survey of U.S.-Chilean Relations. Translated by Orlando García Valverde. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 1991.

Petras, James, and Morris Morley. The United States and Chile: Imperialism and the Overthrow of the Allende Government. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975.

Sigmund, Paul E. The United States and Democracy in Chile. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

 

Occupation of Japan (WIP)

Berra, John. Directory of World Cinema Japan 2. Bristol (GB): Intellect, 2012.

 

Gordon, Andrew. Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

 

Perret, Geoffrey. Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur. New York: Random
House, 1996.

 

Sandler, Mark Howard. The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1997.

 

Schaller, Michael. American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. Oxford
University Press, 1987.

 

Shibusawa, Naoko. America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2006.

 

Uchiyama, Ben. “Post-War Japan” Lecture at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 4
6, 2016.

 

 

Cultural Imperialism

Barjot, Dominique, ed. Catching up with America: Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of American Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War. Presses De L’Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 1997.

de Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20th Century Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Kuisel, Richard F. “Coca-Cola and the Cold War: The French Face Americanization, 1948-1953.” French Historical Studies 17, no. 1 (1991): 96–116. doi:10.2307/286280.

Lundestad, Geir. “Empire” by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Ninkovich, Frank. The United States and Imperialism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2001.

Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War. Translated by Diana M. Wolf. Chapel Hill & London: The University of north Carolina Press, 1994.