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- About this book
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The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact.
- About the authors
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Poul Duedahl is Professor of History at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Director of the Global History of UNESCO Project sponsored by the Danish Council for Independent Research. He received the History Book of the Year Award in Denmark in 2013.
- Reviews
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“Duedahl (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) has gathered a highly knowledgeable cadre of international scholars and experts in the field to write this comprehensive overview of the work of UNESCO. … For scholars of the effects of globalization and the efforts of the UN in the post–WW II world. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above.” (M. W. Quirk, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 3-26
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Popularizing Anthropology, Combating Racism: Alfred Métraux at The UNESCO Courier
Pages 29-48
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Weapons of Mass Distribution: UNESCO and the Impact of Books
Pages 49-72
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And Action! UN and UNESCO Coordinating Information Films, 1945–1951
Pages 73-96
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Bringing Everyone to Trogen: UNESCO and the Promotion of an International Model of Children’s Communities after World War II
Pages 99-115
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A History of UNESCO
- Book Subtitle
- Global Actions and Impacts
- Editors
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- Poul Duedahl
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-58120-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-137-58120-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-58118-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-84528-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 338
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