The battle for hearts and minds in the high north : the USIA and American Cold War propaganda in Sweden, 1952-1969 /

"Mikael Nilsson offers a detailed and groundbreaking analysis of how the United States Information Agency (USIA) conducted its wide-ranging propaganda campaign in Sweden during the Cold War, 1952-1969. The USIA placed propaganda in the Swedish press, radio, and television as well as schools and...

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Main Author: Nilsson, Mikael, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Series:New perspectives on the Cold War ; v. 1.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Analytical framework : hegemony and how to define it
  • American propaganda and the working class : the USIA and the Swedish union and labour movement
  • Freedom from the press? : the Americans, lo, and the closing of Stockholms-Tidningen
  • American propaganda and the opinion-makers, part I : the placement of USIA articles in the Swedish press
  • American Propaganda and the Opinion-Makers, part II : The USIA and the Swedish Radio and Television
  • American Propaganda and the Swedish Educational Sector, Part I : the Fulbright Program, Cultural Exchanges, and Research Funding
  • American Propaganda and the Swedish Educational Sector, part II : the USIA, Academic Exchanges, and American Studies in Sweden
  • Conclusions: How the Swedish Hearts and Minds were Won by American Propagandists.