Raising the world : child welfare in the American century / Sara Fieldston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fieldston, Sara, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child rearing--United States--History--20th century.

Child rearing.

Child welfare--United States--History--20th century.

Child welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674425521

0674425529

9780674425507

0674425502

OCLC:

903930866