British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945-1955 Mapping the "Red Menace" /

• Main Author: Stone, Jeffrey P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; United States-History.; Communication.; Civilization-History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; US History.; Media and Communication.; Cultural History.

During the early years of the Cold War, England and the United States both found themselves reassessing their relationship with their former ally the Soviet Union, and the status of their own "special relationship" was far from certain. As Jeffrey P. Stone argues, maps from British and Ame...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Cold War-era News Maps in Historical Context
• 2. Trends in British and American News Maps by the End of World War II
• 3. Air Age Maps, the Shrinking Globe, and Anglo-American Relations
• 4. American Spheres, British Zones, and the "Special Relationship"
• 5. Cold War Germany in News Maps
• 6. Conclusions.