Taking Books to the World : American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War /
Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1953 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world, with offices in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Although it...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.