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"Maps matter, and Cold War cartographies matter more than most. Barney has written an impressive overview of how American maps came to reflect US global expansion. His discussion of the ideology and the political visions of the world implicit in Cold War maps is original and enlightening. -- ""O. A. Westad, coeditor of The Cambridge History of the Cold War"" This original and important contribution, the first substantial history of Cold War cartography, adds a geographical dimension to a period and a conflict crying out for such an approach. -- ""Matthew Farish, University of Toronto"" Timothy Barney intelligently and sensitively interprets maps, the practices of mapping, and discourses about both, providing rich and nuanced readings of particular maps and making a compelling argument for the central place they held in the Cold War. His book captures masterfully that central paradox of the Cold War: it was at once a highly fluid and distinctly artificial geopolitical affair that managed to produce a remarkably resilient sense of a fixed, enduring, bipolar conflict. -- ""Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"""

Timothy Barney intelligently and sensitively interprets maps, the practices of mapping, and discourses about both, providing rich and nuanced readings of particular maps and making a compelling argument for the central place they held in the Cold War. His book captures masterfully that central paradox of the Cold War: it was at once a highly fluid and distinctly artificial geopolitical affair that managed to produce a remarkably resilient sense of a fixed, enduring, bipolar conflict. -- Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This original and important contribution, the first substantial history of Cold War cartography, adds a geographical dimension to a period and a conflict crying out for such an approach. -- Matthew Farish, University of Toronto Maps matter, and Cold War cartographies matter more than most. Barney has written an impressive overview of how American maps came to reflect US global expansion. His discussion of the ideology and the political visions of the world implicit in Cold War maps is original and enlightening. -- O. A. Westad, coeditor of The Cambridge History of the Cold War

Maps matter, and Cold War cartographies matter more than most. Barney has written an impressive overview of how American maps came to reflect US global expansion. His discussion of the ideology and the political visions of the world implicit in Cold War maps is original and enlightening. -- O. A. Westad, coeditor of The Cambridge History of the Cold War This original and important contribution, the first substantial history of Cold War cartography, adds a geographical dimension to a period and a conflict crying out for such an approach. -- Matthew Farish, University of Toronto Timothy Barney intelligently and sensitively interprets maps, the practices of mapping, and discourses about both, providing rich and nuanced readings of particular maps and making a compelling argument for the central place they held in the Cold War. His book captures masterfully that central paradox of the Cold War: it was at once a highly fluid and distinctly artificial geopolitical affair that managed to produce a remarkably resilient sense of a fixed, enduring, bipolar conflict. -- Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Timothy Barney is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies at the University of Richmond. William Hughes is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. A professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, he received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California at Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist.

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