03663nam 2200601 450 991079652180332120200520144314.01-5017-0970-410.1515/9781501709708(CKB)4100000001038402(OCoLC)978295441(MdBmJHUP)muse65589(DLC) 2017012981(StDuBDS)EDZ0001929372(MiAaPQ)EBC4987885(DE-B1597)496438(DE-B1597)9781501709708(Au-PeEL)EBL4987885(CaPaEBR)ebr11463860(EXLCZ)99410000000103840220171202h20172017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLosing hearts and minds American-Iranian relations and international education during the Cold War /Matthew K. ShannonIthaca, [New York] :Cornell University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (pages cm)Previously issued in print: 2017.1-5017-1234-9 1-5017-1313-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: EDUCATION BETWEEN IRAN AND THE WEST -- 1 THE FOUNDATION -- 2 THE WINDOW -- 3 THE YOUTH -- 4 THE BOOM -- 5 THE RECKONING -- Conclusion: THE INTERNATIONALISMS OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexMatthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans. Losing Hearts and Minds is a narrative rife with historical ironies. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Iranian studentsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEducational exchangesIranHistory20th centuryEducational exchangesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRelationsIranIranRelationsUnited StatesIranian studentsHistoryEducational exchangesHistoryEducational exchangesHistory371.8299155073Shannon Matthew K.1983-1580288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796521803321Losing hearts and minds3861112UNINA