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03221aam a2200457 i 4500 001 0A737DF0177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 200820t20212021ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020038271 020 $a 022676642X 020 $a 9780226766423 020 $a 022676639X 020 $a 9780226766393 035 $a (OCoLC)1193560163 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a JZ4871 $b .B55 2021 100 1 $a Biltoft, Carolyn N., $d 1978- $e author. 245 12 $a A violent peace : $b media, truth, and power at the League of Nations / $c Carolyn N. Biltoft. 246 30 $a Media, truth, and power at the League of Nations 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 191 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface : truth, lies, and violence, then and now -- As seen at the League of Nations : global media, competing truths, and the allure of fascism -- Rebranding the world (picture) -- On true and false tongues -- Fabricating currencies : paper, gold, and other facsimiles -- Fiat lux? False news and hidden flesh -- The word and the sword revisited. 520 $a "Confronted with the roiling changes of the post-WWI world--from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements--the League of Nations aimed to counteract dangerous conflicts between national interests and generate instead a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on truth and justice. Amid widespread anxiety over truth and falsehood, an army of League personnel produced streams of documents in the pursuit of "shaping global public opinion." Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace explores the power and the vulnerability of information systems while laying bare "the anatomy of fascism" in the interwar period. Carolyn Biltoft reopens the archives of the League to show how its attempt to operationalize information science in support of the post-WWI order proved ultimately pyrrhic as informational power struggles devolved into violence. A meditation on instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global and violent modernity, A Violent Peace paints a rich portrait of the emergence of the age of information--and all its attendant problems"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a League of Nations $x History. 610 27 $a League of Nations $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00537247 650 0 $a History, Modern $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Europe $x History $y 1918-1945. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a History, Modern $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958367 651 7 $a Europe $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780226766560 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724074656.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A737DF0177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search