American Post-Conflict Educational Reform

Part I. Introduction

1. American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise
Noah W. Sobe

Part II. The “American Century” Begins

2. Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines
Benjamin Justice

3. “The Path of Progress”: Protestant Missions, Education, and U.S. Hegemony in the “New Cuba,” 1898–1940
Jason M. Yaremko

4. American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia
Noah W. Sobe

Part III. Promises of Modernity and Abundance

5. “The Appeal to the German Mind”: Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944–49
Charles Dorn, Brian Puaca

6. Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Kentaro Ohkura, Masako Shibata

7. German Postwar Educational Reform and the “American Way of Life”
Thomas Koinzer

Part IV. After the Cold War, in the Face of Terror

8. American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Laura B. Perry

9. Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s
Dana Burde

10. Allah, America, and the Army: U.S. Involvement in South Asia and Pakistan’s Education Policy
M. Ayaz Naseem

11. Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International in Iraq, 2003–4
Kenneth J. Saltman

Nyckelord: Environment, Nature Conservation, History of Education, Curriculum Studies, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, History of the Americas