Internationalism and the New Turkey : American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933 /: American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Erik Sjöberg.
• Authors: Sjoberg, Erik
• Contents: Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: Internationalism and the new Turkey. 3 Earlier research on Robert College and American missionary education in Turkey. 6 Argument, material, and perspectives. 9 Outline of the book. 15 Chapter 2. Background: Robert College and late Ottoman society. 22 Nineteenth-century beginnings: Protestant mission in the age of Ottoman reform.. 23 A non-sectarian college on Christian grounds: Robert College's first half-century. 30 The end of the Tanzimat and the age of Hamidian reaction. 33 The beginning of the Young Turk era, 1908-1914. 36 The Ottoman Empire's Great War and the Armenian genocide. 39 Robert College during the World War and the Armistice. 41 The war after the war, the Lausanne Treaty and the new Turkey's 'Year One'. 45 Chapter 3. Years of transition: Adapting to the republican order, 1923-1927. 53 'This desert of discord': The politics of Turkish nationalism, 1923-1927. 55 'Riding for a fall': foreign and communal schools in the age of nationalist educational reform.. 62 Three men and a donkey: Robert College and the Edgar Fisher affair of 1924. 66 From tug-of-war to US-Turkish rapprochement, 1925-1927. 82 'A cure for war': the new secular mission of the American colleges. 89 Chapter 4. 'A moderate and true nationalism': The philosophy and practice of internationalism and peace education at Robert College, c. 1927-1933. 98 To end all wars: education for peace and internationalism after the Great War. 99 Enlightenment's belated offspring: John Dewey and the new Turkey. 103 Practicing world-mindedness: Extracurricular activities in the service of peace at Robert College. 110 The internationalism that dare not speak its name: Teaching on the problem of nationalism.. 121 'This particular dream': American exceptionalism, Turkish nationalism, and the notion of Turkish-American kinship 127 Chapter 5. Wonderful changes, broken unity: Modernity, Ottoman past and national belonging in the essays of Robert College students. 134 'This broken unity': Ottomanism for the post-Ottoman world. 134 Recovering perceptions of students: aims and material 137 'Wonderful changes have taken place': Modernity vs. tradition. 140 Ourselves and Others: Perceptions of national belonging and ethnic minorities. 147 Minority voices: Self-representations among Turkish Greek and Armenian students. 155 The shadow of 1915: Memories of violence in students' essays. 164 Concluding remarks: The Near East and the 'great brotherhood of nations'. 171 Chapter 6. Internationalism defeated: The downfall of Edgar Fisher. 176 The domestic political context: The Free Republican Party and the turn towards totalitarianism.. 177 'Anti-foreignism' and the Turkish History Thesis. 181 'The injustice of this business': The second Fisher incident, 1933. 184 Building harmony: making sense of Fisher's expulsion. 194 Chapter 7. Epilogue and conclusion. 207 Epilogue: The long twilight, 1934-1971. 207 Conclusion: The (inter-)nationalism of Robert College. 215.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: History, Modern; History -- Social History; Education -- History; Social & cultural history; History of education; Social history; Civilization--History; Education--History; History -- Modern -- General; History: earliest times to present day
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031009327
• Related ISBNs: 9783031009310
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