Raising the World : : Child Welfare in the American Century / / Sara Fieldston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Fieldston, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Author's Note --; Prologue: Tales of Love and Global Power --; 1. Manufacturing the Citizens of the World --; 2. Reading Dr. Spock in Postwar Eu rope and Japan --; 3. Building International Friendship in an Orphan Age --; 4. Raising Little Cold Warriors --; 5. Forging the Free Child's Armor --; 6. Training the Natives of the Future --; 7. Challenging the Global Parent --; 8. Globalizing a Happy Childhood --; Epilogue: Raising Children, Uplifting the World --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674425507; 9783110439687; 9783110438635; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674425507
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sara Fieldston.

Sara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe.