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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.)
Item Number
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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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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
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