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Internationalism, national identities, and study abroad : France and the United States, 1890-1970 / / Whitney Walton



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Autore: Walton Whitney Visualizza persona
Titolo: Internationalism, national identities, and study abroad : France and the United States, 1890-1970 / / Whitney Walton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 370.116/20944
Soggetto topico: Educational exchanges - France - History
Educational exchanges - United States - History
Foreign study - France - History
Foreign study - United States - History
Internationalism - History
National characteristics, American - History
National characteristics, French - History
Soggetto geografico: France Relations United States
United States Relations France
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The American Quest for Knowledge and the French Quest for Americans, 1870-1919; 2. Making Internationalists? The Albert Kahn Around-the-World Scholars' Reports on France and the United States, 1898- 1930; 3. Internationalism and the Junior Year Abroad: American Students in France in the 1920's and 1930's; 4. American Girls and French Jeunes Filles: Negotiating National Identities in Interwar France; 5. Warm Relations in a Cold War Atmosphere: Resurgence and Expansion of Study Abroad Following World War II
6. American National Identity and French Student Life: Politicization and Educational Reform in the 1960's 7. Sexuality, Gender, and National Identities in Twentieth-century Franco-American Exchanges; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book-the first to study educational travel between France and the United States throughout the twentieth century-asserts that study abroad is a valuable form of international relations based on the transformations that students' perceptions of themselves, their culture, and their host country undergo during their time abroad.
Titolo autorizzato: Internationalism, national identities, and study abroad  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7338-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815925403321
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