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

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""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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ceglio, Clarissa J., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Series:Public history in historical perspective.
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Museums > United States.
Museums > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Museums > Educational aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Public history > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda.
Propaganda, American > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Musées > États-Unis.
Musées > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Musées > Aspect éducatif > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Histoire appliquée > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Propagande.
Propagande américaine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
HISTORY / General
Museums.
Museums > Educational aspects.
Museums > Social aspects.
Propaganda.
Propaganda, American.
Public history.
Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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