@article{1448044,
      recid = {1448044},
      author = {Sjoberg, Erik,},
      title = {Internationalism and the new Turkey : American peace  education in the Kemalist republic, 1923-1933 /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book examines international education in Turkey after  World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and  international education among American educators emerged.  This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the  nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the  war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to  terms with the radically nationalist modernization project  of Kemal Ataturks Turkish Republic. Using the case of  Robert College, an American educational institution in  Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a  multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book  sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of  modernity, as represented by American internationalist  ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet  deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey.  Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study  addresses the educational intentions and strategies for  adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare  insight into the mindset of young students attempting to  make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic  and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the  new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the  forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor,  Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched  field of internationalism and peace education in interwar  Turkey. Erik Sjoberg is Associate Professor of History at  Sodertorn University, Sweden.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448044},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00932-7},
}