Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations Since 1870

by Richard Garlitz and Lisa Jarvinen

This volume breaks new ground in exploring how international education has influenced the history of U.S. foreign relations. Diplomatic and cultural historians as well as historians of education examine how Americans-private citizens, philanthropists, and government officials-have used education to build empire, to promote peace, and to sell American values and ideas around the world. Yet this volume also demonstrates that foreign governments have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023033945X
• ISBN13: 9780230339453
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"