American Post-Conflict Educational Reform: From the Spanish-American War to Iraq

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines....Pages 19-52
“The Path of Progress”: Protestant Missions, Education, and U.S. Hegemony in the “New Cuba,” 1898–1940....Pages 53-74
American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia....Pages 75-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
“The Appeal to the German Mind”: Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944–49....Pages 105-128
Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the U.S. Occupation of Japan....Pages 129-145
German Postwar Educational Reform and the “American Way of Life”....Pages 147-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe....Pages 169-188
Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s....Pages 189-205
Allah, America, and the Army: U.S. Involvement in South Asia and Pakistan’s Education Policy....Pages 207-228
Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International in Iraq, 2003–4....Pages 229-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-258