Books As Weapons : Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II /

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Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo-crates of books-joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in transla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hench, John B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Publishers and publishing.
Propaganda, American.
Propaganda.
Book industries and trade.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
Propagande americaine > Japon > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Propagande americaine > Europe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Propagande.
Book industries and trade > United States > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Propaganda, American > Japan > History > 20th century.
Propaganda, American > Europe > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda.
United States.
Japan.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Books on the Normandy beaches
  • Modernizing U.S. book publishing
  • War changes everything, even books
  • Publishers organize for war and plan for peace
  • "Books are the most enduring propaganda of all"
  • Seeking "an inside track to the world's bookshelves"
  • "Everyone but the janitor" selected the books
  • Books to pacify and reeducate the enemy
  • Making the "nice little books"
  • Liberating Europe with books
  • The rise and fall of the United States International Book Association
  • The empire strikes back
  • Books for occupied Germany and Japan
  • Epilogue : American books abroad after 1948.

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