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British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945–1955

Mapping the "Red Menace"

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Authors:
  1. Jeffrey P. Stone

    1. Hill College, Fort Worth, USA

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  • Offers a pioneering study of Cold War news journal cartography
  • Compares cartographic depictions of the early Cold War world from British and American news media
  • Appeals to scholars and students of Anglo-American relations, the Cold War, media history, the history of cartography, and American and British foreign policy

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Cold War–Era News Maps in Historical Context

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 1-12

  3. Trends in British and American News Maps by the End of World War II

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 13-44

  4. Air Age Maps, the Shrinking Globe, and Anglo-American Relations

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 45-96

  5. American Spheres, British Zones, and the “Special Relationship”

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 97-150

  6. Cold War Germany in News Maps

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 151-198

  7. Conclusions

    • Jeffrey P. Stone
    Pages 199-214

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 215-236
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About this book

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 American news journals from this period became a valuable tool for relating the new realities of the Cold War to millions of readers. These maps were vehicles for political ideology, revealing both obvious and subtle differences in how each country viewed global geopolitics at the onset of the Cold War. Richly illustrated with news maps, cartographic advertisements, and cartoons from the era, this book reveals the idiomatic political, cultural, and material differences contributing to these divergent cartographic visions of the Cold War world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hill College, Fort Worth, USA

    Jeffrey P. Stone

About the author

Jeffrey P. Stone is Lecturer in history at Hill College and lives in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. His research specializes in the history of cartography, American foreign policy, and international cultural history, and his dissertation won the 2008 Wolfskill Prize. He has published articles in numerous academic journals, including Kansas History, The Portolan, and Geschichte Transnational, and entries in The Encyclopedia of Transatlantic Relations and The History of Cartography series. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945–1955

  • Book Subtitle: Mapping the "Red Menace"

  • Authors: Jeffrey P. Stone

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15468-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15467-7Published: 21 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15470-7Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15468-4Published: 06 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6575

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, US History, Media and Communication, Cultural History

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