Raising the World : : Child Welfare in the American Century / / 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 e...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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