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Examines, in detail, all of the main journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Congress’ cultural message and legacy.
Brings together a group of international experts to examine the cultural and political significance of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Combines the fields of the history of ideas, global history, and the history of the journals, to present a study of the Congress´s global influence and impact.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Europe
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Asia
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About this book
Reviews
“For too long, scholars of the Cultural Cold War have seen the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its journals as a centralized project, with all of its messages and projects emanating from its Paris headquarters (and ultimately from its funders in Washington and London). Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War provides a welcome corrective to this, and in looking at its many magazines not as mere mouthpieces for the Secretariat but also as expressions of their local cultural, political, and economic situations, this book shows that the CCF’s magazines were genuinely “glocal” publications. This will help us, as well, appreciate these many magazines—which published work by some of the most important writers of the day—as magazines, not just as weapons in a larger geopolitical campaign.” (Greg Barnhisel, Chair of the English Department, Duquesne University, USA)
“Transcending the binary debates of the past, this wonderfully well-conceived and executed collection combines transnational and local perspectives to provide a nuanced, fascinating, and indispensable account of the global Cultural Cold War.” (Hugh Wilford, Professor of U.S. History, California State University, Long Beach, USA)
“For too long, scholars of the Cultural Cold War have seen the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its journals as a centralized project, with all of its messages and projects emanating from its Paris headquarters (and ultimately from its funders in Washington and London). [Title] provides a welcome corrective to this, and in looking at its many magazines not as mere mouthpieces for the Secretariat but also as expressions of their local cultural, political, and economic situations, this book shows that the CCF’s magazines were genuinely “glocal” publications. This will help us, as well, appreciate these many magazines—which published work by some of the most important writers of the day—as magazines, not just as weapons in a larger geopolitical campaign.” (Greg Barnhisel, Chair of the English Department, Duquesne University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of History, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Giles Scott-Smith
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Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Charlotte A. Lerg
About the editors
Charlotte A. Lerg teaches history at the Amerika Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. She also serves as managing director of the Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War
Book Subtitle: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Editors: Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59867-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59866-0Published: 03 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59867-7Published: 24 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 331
Topics: Cultural History, Media and Communication, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of the Americas, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Historiography and Method