9780826218537 - Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century de Davis, Donald E.; Trani, Eugene P. (13 resultados)

Condición: Good. First. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: As New. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by co-author Eugene Trani on half title page. (politicians, international relations).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good jkt. First Edition. inscribed and signed by Eugene Trani with his card laid in as president of Virginia Commonwealth University, xxix + 460 pages, notes, bibliography, index, blue coated paper over boards with silver spine title, color illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Front board and a few leaves dented in lower edge beside front hinge, otherwise fine; jacket edgeworn, lightly rubbed. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975! Signed.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condición: New. As the United States enters the twenty-first century, it confronts two powers that loomed less large on the world stage a century before. Yet American policies toward Russia and China have been shaped by attitudes going back even further, as this new book relates. ""Distorted Mirrors"" traces American prejudices toward the two countries by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century. Donald Davis and Eugene Trani show where American images of Russia and China originated, how they evolved, and how they have often helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter. This wide-ranging survey draws on memoirs, archives, and interviews, much of it appearing in print for the first time, to show how influential individuals shaped these perceptions and policies based on what they saw - or thought they saw - in those two countries.Through a series of tableaux that traces America's relations with Russia and China through the twentieth century, the authors show how the personalities of certain players impacted the interpretation of key situations and conflicts and how cultural attitudes toward Russia and China became ingrained and difficult to dislodge. The book traces formative attitudes back to two late-nineteenth-century books, with George Kennan's ""Siberia and the Exile System"" painting a grim picture of tsarist penal colonies and William Rockhill's ""Land of the Lamas"" depicting China as an exotic Shangri-la.Davis and Trani show how these images were sustained over the years: for Russia, by Slavic expert Samuel Harper, State Department official Robert Kelley, journalist Eugene Lyons, ambassador William Bullitt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and policymakers George F. Kennan and Paul Nitze; and for China, by President Woodrow Wilson, philosopher John Dewey, journalist Edgar Snow, novelist Pearl S. Buck, ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, FDR, journalist Theodore White, and statesman Henry Kissinger. They also relate how Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush tried to replace these misconceptions with a policy of accommodation, and they assess the state of current U.S. attitudes and policies.""Distorted Mirrors"" marks a fresh approach to U.S. relations with these countries, emphasizing long-term attitudes that influenced policies rather than the reverse. It shows us that perceptions shaped over the course of the twentieth century are crucial for their bearing on the twenty-first, particularly if those unrestrained prejudices reemerge.

Condición: New. Traces American prejudices toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century. This work shows where American images of Russia and China originated, and how they have helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter. Num Pages: 472 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPC; 1KBB; HBLW; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 930. . 2009. First. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 472 pages. 9.30x6.40x1.70 inches. In Stock.

Condición: New. Traces American prejudices toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century. This work shows where American images of Russia and China originated, and how they have helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter. Num Pages: 472 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPC; 1KBB; HBLW; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 930. . 2009. First. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hardback. Condición: New. As the United States enters the twenty-first century, it confronts two powers that loomed less large on the world stage a century before. Yet American policies toward Russia and China have been shaped by attitudes going back even further, as this new book relates. ""Distorted Mirrors"" traces American prejudices toward the two countries by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century. Donald Davis and Eugene Trani show where American images of Russia and China originated, how they evolved, and how they have often helped sustain foreign policies generally negative toward the former and positive toward the latter. This wide-ranging survey draws on memoirs, archives, and interviews, much of it appearing in print for the first time, to show how influential individuals shaped these perceptions and policies based on what they saw - or thought they saw - in those two countries.Through a series of tableaux that traces America's relations with Russia and China through the twentieth century, the authors show how the personalities of certain players impacted the interpretation of key situations and conflicts and how cultural attitudes toward Russia and China became ingrained and difficult to dislodge. The book traces formative attitudes back to two late-nineteenth-century books, with George Kennan's ""Siberia and the Exile System"" painting a grim picture of tsarist penal colonies and William Rockhill's ""Land of the Lamas"" depicting China as an exotic Shangri-la.Davis and Trani show how these images were sustained over the years: for Russia, by Slavic expert Samuel Harper, State Department official Robert Kelley, journalist Eugene Lyons, ambassador William Bullitt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and policymakers George F. Kennan and Paul Nitze; and for China, by President Woodrow Wilson, philosopher John Dewey, journalist Edgar Snow, novelist Pearl S. Buck, ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, FDR, journalist Theodore White, and statesman Henry Kissinger. They also relate how Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush tried to replace these misconceptions with a policy of accommodation, and they assess the state of current U.S. attitudes and policies.""Distorted Mirrors"" marks a fresh approach to U.S. relations with these countries, emphasizing long-term attitudes that influenced policies rather than the reverse. It shows us that perceptions shaped over the course of the twentieth century are crucial for their bearing on the twenty-first, particularly if those unrestrained prejudices reemerge.