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Raising the World : Child Welfare in the American Century / Sara Fieldston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674368095
  • 9780674425507
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)