Global Exchanges : : Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World /

Global Exchanges : : Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World / / ed. by Ludovic Tournès, Giles Scott-Smith.

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Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges prov...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Atkinson, Carol,
Byrne, Alice,
Chou, Meng-Hsuan,
David, Thomas,
Eder, Jacob S.,
Faure, Justine,
Hessler, Julie,
Higgin, Hannah,
Hübner, Stefan,
Johnson, Lonnie R.,
Lin, Yi-Tang,
Pietsch, Tamson,
Plata-Stenger, Véronique,
Rodogno, Davide,
Rosenfield, Patricia L.,
Sargent, Jesse,
Saunier, Pierre-Yves,
Scott-Smith, Giles,
Simons, Peter,
Syga-Dubois, Judith,
Tournès, Ludovic,
Tronchet, Guillaume,
Xu, Guangqiu,
HerausgeberIn:
Scott-Smith, Giles,
Tournès, Ludovic,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. A World of Exchanges: Conceptualizing the History of International Scholarship Programs (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries)
  • PART I • National and Imperial Power Politics
  • 1 The Politics of Scholarly Exchange: Taking the Long View on the Rhodes Scholarships
  • 2 The Defeat of University Autonomy: French Academic Diplomacy, Mobility Scholarships and Exchange Programs (1880s–1930s)
  • 3 The Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme: Promoting Exchanges in a Changing World (1948–60)
  • 4 Students as Ambassadors: German–American Exchange Diplomacy during the 1980s
  • PART II • International Understanding and World Peace
  • 5 Muscular Christian Exchanges: Asian Sports Experts and the International YMCA Training School (1910s–1930s)
  • 6 Managing Scientific Exchange in Interwar Germany: August Wilhelm Fehling and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships
  • 7 Wedges and Webs: Rockefeller Nursing Fellowships (1920–40)
  • 8 Fellowship Programs for Public Health Development The Rockefeller Foundation, UNRRA and the WHO (1920s–1970s)
  • 9 New Missionaries for Social Development: The ILO Internship Program (1950–63)
  • PART III • The Cold War: A Golden Age of Scholarship Programs
  • 10 The Fulbright Program and the Philosophy and Geography of US Exchange Programs since World War II
  • 11 Grassroots Diplomacy: Fighting the Cold War on the Family Farm with the International Farm Youth Exchange
  • 12 Third World Students at Soviet Universities in the Brezhnev Period
  • 13 US Exchange Programs with Africa during the Civil Rights Era
  • 14 Working on/Working with the Soviet Bloc: IREX, Scholarly Exchanges and Détente
  • PART IV • The Globalization Moment: New Geography and New Challenges
  • 15 American Foundations and the Challenge of Funding International Fellowship and Exchange Programs since 1970
  • 16 Global Networks, Soft Power and the US Military
  • 17 American Fulbrighters in China (1979–2014)
  • 18 Importing Barbarian Knowledge: The JET Program and the Development of Cultural Internationalism in Japan (1987–2014)
  • 19 New Actors of the Post-Cold War World (Europe, China and India) Toward a Genuine Globalization of Scholarship Programs
  • Conclusion: 150 Years of Scholarship Programs: Old Trends and New Prospects in the Global Landscape
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Web Resources
  • Index

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