Interwar Internationalism and the Rebuilding of the Catholic University of Louvain Library (1914–1928).
Drawing upon archival sources from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and the Nicholas Murray Butler papers, this article situates postwar reconstruction of the library within the context of the wider internationalist movement and interwar attempts to replace nationalism with inte...
| Published in: | Libraries: Culture, History & Society Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2020
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