The Political Economy of Human Rights
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
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Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's "The Political Economy of Human Rights" stands as a foundational two volume work of political nonfiction. Volume I, "The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism," documents Washington's support of authoritarian regimes across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and details United States aggression in Indochina as the most severe campaign of state violence since the Second World War. Volume II, "After the Cataclysm," examines the reconstruction of postwar Indochina and dissects how American intellectuals and media outlets constructed a distorted narrative to justify imperial policy. Together the volumes argue that the American government's professed commitment to human rights operated as rhetoric divorced from actual foreign policy, which prioritized economic access and investment stability for US business interests above all else. Chomsky and Herman dismantle the credibility of establishment scholars and mainstream journalism, presenting original archival research to substantiate claims of systematic media complicity in obscuring state terror abroad. This set remains a landmark of Cold War era political scholarship and a cornerstone text in critical media studies and US foreign policy criticism.
Author: Noam Chomsky; Edward S. Herman
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. feps clipped. Bookseller's stamp on fep. Internally sound; clean text.
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's "The Political Economy of Human Rights" stands as a foundational two volume work of political nonfiction. Volume I, "The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism," documents Washington's support of authoritarian regimes across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and details United States aggression in Indochina as the most severe campaign of state violence since the Second World War. Volume II, "After the Cataclysm," examines the reconstruction of postwar Indochina and dissects how American intellectuals and media outlets constructed a distorted narrative to justify imperial policy. Together the volumes argue that the American government's professed commitment to human rights operated as rhetoric divorced from actual foreign policy, which prioritized economic access and investment stability for US business interests above all else. Chomsky and Herman dismantle the credibility of establishment scholars and mainstream journalism, presenting original archival research to substantiate claims of systematic media complicity in obscuring state terror abroad. This set remains a landmark of Cold War era political scholarship and a cornerstone text in critical media studies and US foreign policy criticism.