Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange

by Richard Cándida Smith

Book Overview

How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard C ndida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and major cultural institutions, brought many of the most important artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249429
• ISBN13: 9780812249422
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"