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Author:

Laugesen, Amanda, author.

Title:

Taking books to the world : American publishers and the cultural cold war / Amanda Laugesen.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Franklin Book Programs--History.
Book industries and trade--United States--History--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--History--20th century.
Translations--History--History--20 century.
Books and reading--History--20th century.
Cultural diplomacy--United States--History--20th century.
Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

ISBN:

1625343094
9781625343093
1625343086
9781625343086

OCLC:

(OCoLC)987796660

LCCN:

2017017178

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)