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Information Hunters
When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Buch von Kathy Peiss
Sprache: Englisch

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During and immediately after World War II, an unlikely band of librarians and scholars, soldiers and spies were dispatched to Europe to collect books and documents, to acquire and preserve the written word as well as provide critical information for intelligence purposes.
During and immediately after World War II, an unlikely band of librarians and scholars, soldiers and spies were dispatched to Europe to collect books and documents, to acquire and preserve the written word as well as provide critical information for intelligence purposes.
Über den Autor
Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture, and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, documentary films, and public history projects.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prologue

  • Introduction

  • Ch. 1 The Country of the Mind Must Also Attack

  • Ch. 2 Librarians and Collectors Go to War

  • Ch. 3 The Wild Scramble for Documents

  • Ch. 4 Acquisitions Grand Scale

  • Ch. 5 Fugitive Records of War

  • Ch. 6 Book Burning-American Style

  • Ch. 7 Not a Library, but a Large Depot of Loot

  • Conclusion

  • Epilogue

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780190944612
ISBN-10: 0190944617
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Peiss, Kathy
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 244 x 161 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kathy Peiss
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,571 kg
preigu-id: 115614958
Über den Autor
Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture, and Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, documentary films, and public history projects.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prologue

  • Introduction

  • Ch. 1 The Country of the Mind Must Also Attack

  • Ch. 2 Librarians and Collectors Go to War

  • Ch. 3 The Wild Scramble for Documents

  • Ch. 4 Acquisitions Grand Scale

  • Ch. 5 Fugitive Records of War

  • Ch. 6 Book Burning-American Style

  • Ch. 7 Not a Library, but a Large Depot of Loot

  • Conclusion

  • Epilogue

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780190944612
ISBN-10: 0190944617
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Peiss, Kathy
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 244 x 161 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kathy Peiss
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,571 kg
preigu-id: 115614958
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