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Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Title
- Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg, editors.
- Publication
- [London, United Kingdom] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvii, 331 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret patron that paid the bills"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Journals of freedom? / Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte A. Lerg -- Part I. Science. Science and freedom : the forgotten bulletin / Audra J. Wolfe ; Consensus, civility, community : Minerva and the vision of Edward Shils / Roy MacLeod -- Part II. Europe. Der Monat and the Congress for Cultural Freedom : the high tide of the intellectual Cold War, 1948-1971 / Michael Hochgeschwender ; The difficult emergence of an 'anti-totalitarian' journal in post-war France : Preuves and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Nicolas Stenger ; 'Our greatest asset' : Encounter magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Jason Harding ; Beyond the Cold War : Tempo presente in Italy / Chiara Morbi and Paola Carlucci ; 'Vienna is different' : Friedrich Torberg's journal Forum, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and competing soft-power strategies in the Cold War / Felix Tweraser ; Tracking the bear : Survey / Giles Scott-Smith -- Part III. Latin America. Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de Cultura (1953-1965) and the failure of a Cold War liberal project for Latin America / Olga Glondys ; Mundo nuevo : behind the scenes of a Spanish Encounter / María Eugenia Mudrovcic -- Part IV. Africa and the Middle East. Cold War in the Arabic press : Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962-67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Elizabeth M. Holt ; Black Orpheus and the African magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Asha Rogers -- Part V. Asia. Japan's CCF affiliate, Jiyú, and covert public diplomacy / Ann Sherif ; Quest : twenty years of cultural politics / Eric Pullin ; Quadrant : the evolution of an Australian conservative journal / John Chiddick.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-5816
- ISBN
- 9781137598660
- 1137598662
- LCCN
- 2017945900
- OCLC
- 964377808
- Title
- Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg, editors.
- Publisher
- [London, United Kingdom] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
- Added Author
- Scott-Smith, Giles, 1968- editor.Lerg, Charlotte A., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-5816