Empire and education
Subtitle: a history of greed and goodwill from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror
By: A.J. Angulo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781137024510; 9781137024527
Subjects: Government policy; Democracy; Military History; American Educational assistance; Business and politics; Democratization; Foreign economic relations; Foreign relations; History
Description: Empire and Education covers education and American imperialism from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror. It offers the first single-volume narrative history devoted to the role of education in American interventions abroad and pulls together isolated case studies and archival research into a coherent, accessible, narrative sweep. This path-breaking volume inspires new directions in the study of American educational history.
Table of contents: title: After the Maine; title: Benevolent education; title: Culture and citizenship; title: Hampton creole; title: By executive order; title: Greatest generation; title: Zero hour; title: In perpetuity; title: Private matter; title: Complex problem.