Foreign cultural policy in the interbellum : the Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council contesting the Mediterranean / Tamara van Kessel.

Foreign cultural policy in the interbellum : the Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council contesting the Mediterranean /

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of the...

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Main Author: Kessel, Tamara van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
Series:Heritage and memory studies ; 2.
Subjects:
Società Dante Alighieri.
British Council.
Great Britain > Relations > Italy.
Italy > Relations > Great Britain.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of the rise of fascist dictatorships in Europe. Van Kessel focuses in particular on the activities of the British Council and the Italian Dante Alighieri Society in the Mediterranean area, where their respective country's strategic and ideological interests most evidently clashed. --
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048527410
9048527414
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 22, 2018).

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