Tamara Kessel

Foreign Cultural Policy in the Interbellum

The Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council Contesting the Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9789089648778
• ISBN-10: 9089648771
• Artikelnr.: 44675482

Autorenporträt

Tamara van Kessel is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam and member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Heritage and Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Chapter 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN CULTURAL POLICY Chapter
2: THE DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY AND THE BRITISH COUNCIL AGENCY AND
INDEPENDENCE Chapter 3: CONSTRUCTIONS OF 'ITALIANITÀ' AND 'BRITISHNESS'
Chapter 4: THE BATTLE FOR CULTURAL HEGEMONY IN MALTA Chapter 5: NATIONAL
CULTURE AND IMPERIAL CONQUEST: THE DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY IN ABYSSINIA AND
THE BRITISH COUNCIL IN EGYPT, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Bibliography.