Intercultural transfers and the making of the modern world, 1800-2000
Subtitle: sources and contexts
By: Thomas Adam
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780230243545; 9780230243538
Subjects: Culture diffusion; Cooperative societies; Montessori method of education; Housing; Social change; Eugenics; Case studies; Passive resistance; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the nature of intercultural transfer; title: Cooperatives and capitalism : the democratization of the economy; title: Better housing for better citizens : Octavia Hill's worldwide appeal to housing reform; title: Better citizens for a better future? : the transnational transfer of eugenics; title: From memorization to problem-solving : Maria Montessori's contribution to school reform in the twentieth century; title: Change through non-violence : the rationalization of conflict solution.