International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Jonas Brendebach is a PhD researcher at the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute, Florence. He was a visiting doctoral student at Columbia University, New York.

International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries brings together the history of international organizations and media over two centuries. Written by leading scholars and with case studies from across the world, it is ideal for scholars of international history and those interested in the impact of medi

1. Introduction (Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, and Heidi Tworek) 2. The Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine and European media, 1815-1848 (Robert Mark Spaulding) 3. The Public image of the Universal Postal Union in the Anglophone world, 1874-1949 (Richard R. John) 4. The limits of peace propaganda: the Information Section of the League of Nations and its Tokyo office (Tomoko Akami) 5. International exhibitionism: the League of Nations at the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940 (David Allen) 6. Making their own internationalism: Algerian media and a few others the League of Nations ignored, 1919-1943 (Arthur Asseraf) 7. Hollywood, the United Nations, and the long history of film communicating internationalism (Glenda Sluga) 8. Towards a new international communication order? UNESCO, development, and "national communication policies" in the 1960s and 1970s (Jonas Brendebach) 9. Singing and painting global awareness: international years and human rights at the United Nations (Monika Baár) 10. A wave of interest and action for plant Earth? How UNEP spoke for the environment from Stockholm to Rio (Simone M. Müller)