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A History of UNESCO (eBook, PDF)

Global Actions and Impacts

Redaktion: Duedahl, Poul

Beschreibung

The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact.

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Autor

Poul Duedahl is Professor of History at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Director of the Global History of UNESCO Project sponsored by the Danish Council for Independent Research. He received the History Book of the Year Award in Denmark in 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137581204
• Artikelnr.: 44916253

Rezensionen

"Duedahl (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) has gathered a highly knowledgeable cadre of international scholars and experts in the field to write this comprehensive overview of the work of UNESCO. ... For scholars of the effects of globalization and the efforts of the UN in the post-WW II world. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above." (M. W. Quirk, Choice, Vol. 54 (5), January, 2017)