Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72817-2 (ISBN)
Broadly speaking, book diplomacy covers the use of books to achieve certain objectives related to the foreign policy interests of a given country, usually involving state-private partnerships of varying degrees. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines examine in detail how books functioned as tools of “soft power” and cultural diplomacy during the cultural Cold War. This study also introduces a 10-point typology to examine the many forms and practices of Cold War book diplomacy and the diversity of objectives and outcomes that they involved. Looking beyond the Cold War, this volume stresses the continuing importance of books as a distinct form of material culture used to convey information around the world.
Contributors are: Tahoor Ali, Hanna Blum, Deborah Cohn, Cécile Cottenet, Alexander Erokhin, Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Musa Igrek, Julia Lin Thompson, Rósa Magnúsdóttir, Christos Mais, Hafiz Abid Masood, Mila Milani, Birgitte Beck Pristed, Giles Scott-Smith, Ilaria Sicari, and Steven W. Witt.
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Ph.D. (2012), Rovira i Virgili University, is an independent scholar. His research covers book diplomacy, the intellectual history of modern Iran, and translation studies. Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History at Leiden University. His research covers a broad range of fields around public/cultural diplomacy and citizen diplomats.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Book Diplomacy in the Cultural Cold War and beyond: An Introduction
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-Smith
Part 1 Book Diplomacy and Power in the International System
1 Internationalism Meets the Cold War: Interwar Book Networks as Challenge to State Power
Steven W. Witt
2 Professor Pearson Goes to Washington: Norman Holmes Pearson, U.S. Literature, and the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
Deborah Cohn
3 Literature as a Weapon? Soviet Book Diplomacy, Soviet, and U.S. Literature in the Cultural Cold War between 1945 and 1964
Alexander Erokhin
Part 2 Publishers and Literary Agents
4 Bringing Books to France: Literary Agents in Cold War Transnational Networks (1940s–1960s)
Cécile Cottenet
5 The Literary Agent as Book Diplomat: Erich Linder’s Agency in the Transnational Socialization of Tamizdat
Ilaria Sicari
6 Serving Two Masters: Cold War Book Diplomacy in 1960s Greece
Christos Mais
Part 3 Translation and the Role of Translators
7 Translation as a Tool of Soft Power: A Study of Franklin Book Programs’ Urdu Books in Pakistan
Hafiz Abid Masood and Tahoor Ali
8 Translating for Children during the Cold War: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Franco’s Spain and Chairman Mao’s China
Julia Lin Thompson
9 Publishing Translations from Russian in Italy during the Cold War
Mila Milani
Part 4 Censorship, Propaganda and Informal Diplomacy
10 Fighting with Words: The Role of Discourses in the Literary Field during the Cultural Cold War in the GDR
Hanna Blum
11 Bellman Books: Selling a Favorable Image Abroad
Musa Igrek
12 Scientific American in the USSR: The Semi-Diplomatic Spaces of Soviet-American Publishing Relations, 1980–1984
Rósa Magnúsdóttir and Birgitte Beck Pristed
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Perspectives on the Cold War ; 13 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 776 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-72817-1 / 9004728171 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-72817-2 / 9789004728172 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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