Raising the World : Child Welfare in the American Century / Sara Fieldston.
Fieldston, Sara, author.
2015
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Title Raising the World : Child Welfare in the American Century / Sara Fieldston.
Author Fieldston, Sara, author.
ISBN 9780674425507
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674425507
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (328 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674425507 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.7
Summary 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 expand American hegemony around the globe.
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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

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