Education and the cultural cold war in the Middle East : The Franklin book programs in Iran / Mahdi Ganjavi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganjavi, Mahdi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonialism & imperialism.

Education--History.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized by the United States' government agencies as well as private corporations. The FBP was initially intended to promote U.S. liberal values, combat Soviet influence and to create appropriate markets for U.S. books in 'Third World' of which the Middle East was an important part, but evolved into an international educational program publishing university textbooks, schoolbooks, and supplementary readings. In Iran, working closely with the Pahlavi regime, its activities included the development of printing, publishing, book distribution, and bookselling institutions. This book uses archival sources from the FBP, US intelligence agencies and in Iran, to piece together this relationship. Put in the context of wider cultural diplomacy projects operated by the US, it reveals the extent to which the programme shaped Iran's educational system. Together the history of the FBP, its complex network of state and private sector, the role of U.S. librarians, publishers, and academics, and the joint projects the FBP organized in several countries with the help of national ministries of education, financed by U.S. Department of State and U.S. foundations, sheds new light on the long history of education in imperialist social orders, in the context here of the ongoing struggle for influence in the Cold War..

Contents:

Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations 1. A Cold War History of Books and Education 2. Cultural Imperialism: Why Franklin Book Programs Matters 3. Franklin Book Programs: Translation, Publications, and Book Distribution during the Cold War 4. History and International Evolution of the Franklin Book Programs (1952-77) 5. Franklin Book Programs in Iran: Context, Establishment, and Regular Translation Programs 6. Franklin Book Programs in Iran: Special Educational Projects, Reactions to the Tehran Branch, and Demise 7. The Cold War, Knowledge Production, and the Middle East Appendix I: The Presidents of the FBP and a List of FBP Local Branches Appendix II: Local Participation by Civic and Intellectual Leaders References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755643455

0755643453

9780755643431

0755643437

9780755643448

0755643445

OCLC:

1350449244