Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War

TitleTaking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsLaugesen, Amanda
Series TitleStudies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages193 pp.
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
CityAmherst, MA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781625343086
Annotation

Focuses on the Franklin Books Program which distributed American books around the world, with offices in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Contents:
Introduction. American Cold War book empires
Books for a new war
Book diplomacy in the Middle East
A world of books, an empire of books
Book work as modernization
Book modernization in Africa and Latin America
The decline and end of Franklin Book Programs
Conclusion. Assessing the legacy

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