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Internationalism and the new Turkey : American peace education in the Kemalist republic, 1923-1933

Title: Internationalism and the new Turkey : American peace education in the Kemalist republic, 1923-1933 / Erik Sjöberg.
Author: Sjoberg, Erik
Publication: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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Description

x, 264 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to terms with the radically nationalist modernization project of Kemal Ataturks Turkish Republic. Using the case of Robert College, an American educational institution in Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of modernity, as represented by American internationalist ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey. Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study addresses the educational intentions and strategies for adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare insight into the mindset of young students attempting to make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor, Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched field of internationalism and peace education in interwar Turkey. Erik Sjoberg is Associate Professor of History at Sodertorn University, Sweden.

Series Statement

Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe, 2523-7993

Uniform Title

Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

3031009312
9783031009310

OCLC

on1305912884
1305912884
SCSB-14231677

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library