Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction. On Value and Values: Power, Progress, and Inequality in the American Century 1
4. 1. Investment and Invasion: The Clash Between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903–1936 15
5. 2. Gangster for Capitalism: Smedley Butler Abroad in the Age of Empire 31
6. 3. From Nashville to Port-au- Prince: Giles A. Hubert and the Agrarian New Deal in Postoccupation Haiti 50
7. 4. Weapons of the Strong: The Multinational Firm, Infrastructure, and the Neoliberal Legacies of the New Deal 71
8. 5. Rivers of Money: American Expert Influence on Pakistan and the Indus’ Water Economy 85
9. 6. Productivity as a Way of Life: USIS Propaganda Films in Cold War Italy 116
10. 7. Selling Cooperative Capitalism Abroad: The U.S. Cooperative Movement and International Development During the Cold War 133
11. 8. Building a Capitalist Consciousness: Japan and Visions of Capitalist Asia 154
12. 9. Cash for Gold: The Role of Private Finance in Shaping Decolonization in South and Central Africa, 1960–1974 179
13. 10. Courting American Capital: Public Relations and the Selling of Ivorian Capitalism in the United States, 1960–1980 193
14. 11. Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate Lobbying After Three Mile Island, 1979–1985 206
15. Notes 221
16. List of Contributors 281
17. Index 285
18. Acknowledgments 301