United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO Committee for a History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind)
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content: Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers
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content: Melvin Kranzberg Papers / Series 1: Consultation and Advisement, 1958-1987
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content: 1961-1965
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.0266, Subseries 1.10
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content: Archival materials
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content: United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO Committee for a History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind) was constituted in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO. The task of the Commission was the preparation of a history of the scientific and cultural development of mankind. Work on this history began in 1952. 

Historians of international repute were selected to write six volumes. In 1953 the Commission published a quarterly trilingual periodical, the Journal of World History. After 1957, preliminary texts were available and scholars in every member state of UNESCO were asked to read manuscripts and make suggestions for revision. The administrative work was delegated to a Secretariat with headquarters in Paris. A list of members of the Commission, author-editors, and the editorial secretary of the Journal of World History is in Folder 2.

Dr. Melvin Kranzberg's 1963 contract with the Commission was to rewrite or make suggestions of Part II, Chapters I to VIII of Volume V. Letters relating to this contract and the contract are included along with his comments and related footnotes, and Volume V, Part II, Technical Developments, Chapters VII and VIII, 1959, by Charles Moraze.
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