Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870

by R. Garlitz (Editor), L. Jarvinen (Editor)

Overview

A fresh analysis of the study of American foreign relations history, this book shows the ways in which international education has shaped the US relationship with the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349342242
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/25/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

DOROTHÉE BOUQUET Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University LIPING BU Professor of history at Alma College CHARLES DORN Associate Professor of Education at Bowdoin College RICHARD GARLITZ Assistant Professor of History at University of Tennessee at Martin LISA JARVINEN Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia PAUL A. KRAMER Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University KAREN LEROUX Associate Professor of History at Drake University HONGSHAN LI Professor of History at Kent State University SHUJI OTSUKA Teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland in College Park DORIS SANTORO Assistant Professor of Education at Bowdoin College WHITNEY WALTON Professor of History at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Is the World Our Campus?: International Students and U.S. Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century - Paul A. Kramer Sarmiento's Self-Strengthening Experiment: Americanizing Schools for Argentine Nation-Buildin - Karen Leroux Educating the Sons of the Revolution: The Cuban Educational Association, 1898-1901 - Lisa Jarvinen A Vital, Free, Independent and Lay Republic: John Dewey and the Role of Education in Establishing the Turkish State - Doris A. Santoro and Charles Dorn Education and International Cultural Understanding: The American Elite Approach, 1920-1937 - Liping Bu Sex Education: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in French-American Relations in the Twentieth Century - Whitney Walton French Academic Propaganda in the United States, 1930-1939 - Dorothée Bouquet Lost in Translation: Japanese Fulbright Students as Cultural Interpreters - Shuji Otsuka American University Advisors and Education Modernization in Iran, 1951-1967, Richard Garlitz

Editorial Reviews

"How did American education shape U.S. foreign relations? And how did educators around the world influence American schooling and diplomacy? These are enormous questions, and the answers vary across space and time. So do the remarkable essays in this collection, which draw together the best recent scholarship about international education and U.S. foreign affairs. There is plenty left to know, of course, and I hope this fine book inspires other historians to find it." - Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of Education and History, New York University

"Teaching America to the World and the World to America offers a treasure trove of fascinating research. It shows that Americans and other peoples learned about one another in ways that surprised them both and that soft power is as unpredictable, challenging, and determinative as hard power, and just as real. Wonderful reading." - Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, author of All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s

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