A Violent Peace

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  • A Violent Peace Book Detail

  • Author : Carolyn N. Biltoft
  • Release Date : 2021-05-03
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 204
  • ISBN 13 : 022676642X
  • File Size : 75,75 MB

A Violent Peace by Carolyn N. Biltoft PDF Summary

Book Description: "Confronted with the roiling changes of the post-WWI world--from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements--the League of Nations aimed to counteract dangerous conflicts between national interests and generate instead a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on truth and justice. Amid widespread anxiety over truth and falsehood, an army of League personnel produced streams of documents in the pursuit of "shaping global public opinion." Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace explores the power and the vulnerability of information systems while laying bare "the anatomy of fascism" in the interwar period. Carolyn Biltoft reopens the archives of the League to show how its attempt to operationalize information science in support of the post-WWI order proved ultimately pyrrhic as informational power struggles devolved into violence. A meditation on instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global and violent modernity, A Violent Peace paints a rich portrait of the emergence of the age of information--and all its attendant problems"--

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