Description: This volume is a study of how and why book diplomacy was used in the cultural Cold War. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it defines book diplomacy as a field. Its case studies explore the dynamics of production, sponsorship, translation, distribution, and reception of books as tools of soft power.
Review Quotes: "While the last twenty years have seen a number of important studies of how books were used as tools of cultural diplomacy in the Cold War, this volume brings a heretofore unprecedented geographical breadth to the scholarship on this topic. Ranging from Pakistan to Italy, from Greece to China, the nations examined by the scholars in this collection go far beyond the US, UK, USSR, and France, which have been the subjects of most of the research to date. The contributions are of a uniformly high level of scholarship and the organization makes good sense. The introductory literature review of the existing English language scholarship on the topic is the best overview of the field I'm aware of." - Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University