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Andrew Friedman

Covert Capital

Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia

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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 road… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-95668-1
  • EAN: 9780520956681
  • Produktnummer: 21596269
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 428 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 7'774 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


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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