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The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945

Heidi J. S. Tworek

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674988408

Publication Date: 03/11/2019

* Academic Trade

344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 photo, 12 illus.

Harvard Historical Studies

World

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Heidi J. S. Tworek is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is also a non-resident fellow at both the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and is Project Coordinator of the United Nations History Project.

Awards & Accolades

2020 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference of the American Historical Association and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Honorable Mention, 2020 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies

Shortlist, 2020 Pinsky Givon Family Prize for Non-fiction, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards

2019 Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide

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