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During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is known about their daily internal workings. With a specific focus on the 1950s and 1960s Asia Foundation, Cold War Deceptions provides ...

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The first complete history of the American surveillance state, from J. Edgar Hoover to Obama

A visual transformation of the Bible took place in the Renaissance and Reformation. Initially, this occurred as a result of technological advances, for the printing press proliferated biblical texts and images on a previously unimaginable scale. Equally important, Reformation theology, though also a threat to art, served as a catalyst for the creation of innovative biblical iconography. In the Beginning Was the Image demonstrates the pivotal r...

Throughout early sixteenth century Germany, attempts were made to confiscate and destroy Jewish books, in order to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire. An unlikely champion of Judaism emerged in Johannes Reuchlin, who wrote a passionate defense of Jewish writings and legal rights in 1510. David H. Price offers a compelling study of Reuchlin 's writings and their enduring impact on Jewish-Christian relations.

David H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology.

David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University. He is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, both also published by Duke University Press, and Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State.

An archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20, 000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act.

Originally published in 1990, this is the ultimate resource for geographically locating the myriad of cultures described in ethnographic literature. The heart of Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature is a set of forty-one maps that physically locate for the researcher more than 3500 groups, tribes or peoples. For any student or professional reading ethnographic or cross-culture research, this feature alone is...

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Cultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II.

Cultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II.

An archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20, 000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act.