Cultural Policy in a Time of War: The American Response to Endangered Books in World War II
Peiss, Kathy
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Title
Cultural Policy in a Time of War: The American Response to Endangered Books in World War II
Author(s)
Peiss, Kathy
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
Libraries and society
World War II
Abstract
For the first time in U.S. history, the protection of books and other
cultural resources became an official war aim during World War
II. Examining the broad historical process by which this policy was
formed and executed, this article focuses on three key factors: the
new role of intellectual and cultural elites, who forged close ties with
the state; the expansion of intelligence gathering and its unintended
consequences for the preservation of cultural material; and the extraordinary
actions of individual librarians, curators, and ordinary
soldiers on the ground, who improvised solutions to the problems
of preservation and restoration.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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