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