Internationalism and the new Turkey : American peace education in the Kemalist republic, 1923-1933 / Erik Sjöberg.
2022
JZ5534
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Title
Internationalism and the new Turkey : American peace education in the Kemalist republic, 1923-1933 / Erik Sjöberg.
Author
Sjoberg, Erik, author.
ISBN
9783031009327 (electronic bk.)
3031009320 (electronic bk.)
9783031009310
3031009312
3031009320 (electronic bk.)
9783031009310
3031009312
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-031-00932-7 doi
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JZ5534
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.6/6071
Summary
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.
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Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe. 2523-7993
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Internationalism and the New Turkey
2. Background: Robert College and Late Ottoman Society
3. Years of Transition: Adapting to the Republican Order, 1923-1927
4. "A moderate and true nationalism" : The Philosophy and Practice of Internationalism and Peace Education at Robert College, c.1927-1933
5. Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students
6. Internationalism Defeated: The Downfall of Edgar Fisher
Chapter 7. Epilogue and Conclusion.
2. Background: Robert College and Late Ottoman Society
3. Years of Transition: Adapting to the Republican Order, 1923-1927
4. "A moderate and true nationalism" : The Philosophy and Practice of Internationalism and Peace Education at Robert College, c.1927-1933
5. Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students
6. Internationalism Defeated: The Downfall of Edgar Fisher
Chapter 7. Epilogue and Conclusion.