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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucasâs Star Wars" (2022)
Description: In this episode I got to chat about two of my favorite things: the history of imperialism and Star Wars with Daniel Immerwahr, Professor of History at Northwestern University. Our conversation focused on his recent article âThe Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucasâs Star Wars,â in Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories, edited by David Milne and Christopher Nichols (Columbia University Press, 2022). In the piece her uses the film and the figure of George Lucas to explore various aspects of the United States in the Cold War. Were Ewoks the Viet Cong? Was the Death...