TY - BOOK AU - Fieldston,Sara TI - Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century SN - 9780674368095 U1 - 362.7 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Child rearing KW - History KW - 20th century KW - United States KW - Child welfare KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674425507 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674425507 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674425507.jpg ER -