Teaching America to the World and the World to America - by R Garlitz & L Jarvinen (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A fresh analysis of the study of American foreign relations history, this book shows the ways in which international education has shaped the US relationship with the world.

Review Quotes

"How did American education shape U.S. foreign relations? And how did educators around the world influence American schooling and diplomacy? These are enormous questions, and the answers vary across space and time. So do the remarkable essays in this collection, which draw together the best recent scholarship about international education and U.S. foreign affairs. There is plenty left to know, of course, and I hope this fine book inspires other historians to find it." - Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of Education and History, New York University

"Teaching America to the World and the World to America offers a treasure trove of fascinating research. It shows that Americans and other peoples learned about one another in ways that surprised them both and that soft power is as unpredictable, challenging, and determinative as hard power, and just as real. Wonderful reading." - Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, author of All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s

About the Author

DOROTHÉE BOUQUET Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University LIPING BU Professor of history at Alma College CHARLES DORN Associate Professor of Education at Bowdoin College RICHARD GARLITZ Assistant Professor of History at University of Tennessee at Martin LISA JARVINEN Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia PAUL A. KRAMER Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University KAREN LEROUX Associate Professor of History at Drake University HONGSHAN LI Professor of History at Kent State University SHUJI OTSUKA Teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland in College Park DORIS SANTORO Assistant Professor of Education at Bowdoin College WHITNEY WALTON Professor of History at Purdue University.