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

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2017
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Series Title
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Language
Number of Pages
193 pp.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
City
Amherst, MA
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Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9781625343086
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