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A cultural arsenal for democracy : the World War II work of U.S. museums /

""Does it seem strange to think of a museum as a weapon in national defense?" asked John Hay Whitney, president of the Museum of Modern Art, in June 1941. As the United States entered the Second World War in the months to follow, this idea seemed far from strange to museums. Working t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ceglio, Clarissa J., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Colección:Public history in historical perspective.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The American museum as social instrument
  • Toward a material rhetoric of social instrumentality
  • Materializing the good neighborhood
  • The exhibitionary network and hemispheric citizenship
  • War comes to the museum
  • Witnessing war fare : the construction of home front citizenship
  • Gateways to global citizenship in a postwar world
  • Conclusion. Museum stories, old and new.