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Book The Overseas Americans   By  H  Cleveland  Gerard J  Mangone  John Clarke Adams   Fifth Printing

Download or read book The Overseas Americans By H Cleveland Gerard J Mangone John Clarke Adams Fifth Printing written by Harlan Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Overseas Americans

Download or read book The Overseas Americans written by Harlan Cleveland and published by New York : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1960 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of what life is like for Americans living and working overseas as missionaries, businessmen, students, and government employees.

Book The Overseas Americans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harlan Cleveland, Gerard J. Mangone, John Clarke Adams
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Overseas Americans written by Harlan Cleveland, Gerard J. Mangone, John Clarke Adams and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great American Mission

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  • Author : David Ekbladh
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-08-28
  • ISBN : 0691152454
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Great American Mission written by David Ekbladh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.

Book Administration of National Security

Download or read book Administration of National Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Living Church

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Instrumental University

Download or read book The Instrumental University written by Ethan Schrum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, The Instrumental University shows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators. The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970s and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare.

Book Nobody in Charge

Download or read book Nobody in Charge written by Harlan Cleveland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most renowned thinkers and insightful writers on leadership of our time, Harlan Cleveland has seen numerous trends come and go and weathered many drastic changes in leadership and management-from the rise of the "company man" to the advent of the leaderless, self-managed organization. In this collection of essays-the newest addition to the Warren Bennis Signature Series--he draws on his vast experience to apply his thoughts to leadership. In each essay, Cleveland focuses on an intriguing insight about leadership-illustrated by stories from his own experience --offering thoughtful perspective on what 21st century leaders will face in the new knowledge environment.

Book The American Century

Download or read book The American Century written by Donald Wallace White and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a wide range of sources the author identifies major trends in past American foreign policy and describes the decline of American power that has been in abeyance since the end of the Vietnam War.

Book Administratioon of National Security

Download or read book Administratioon of National Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Innocents Abroad

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  • Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-15
  • ISBN : 0674268474
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Innocents Abroad written by Jonathan Zimmerman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant missionaries in Latin America. Colonial "civilizers" in the Pacific. Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa. Since the 1890s, thousands of American teachers--mostly young, white, middle-class, and inexperienced--have fanned out across the globe. Innocents Abroad tells the story of what they intended to teach and what lessons they learned. Drawing on extensive archives of the teachers' letters and diaries, as well as more recent accounts, Jonathan Zimmerman argues that until the early twentieth century, the teachers assumed their own superiority; they sought to bring civilization, Protestantism, and soap to their host countries. But by the mid-twentieth century, as teachers borrowed the concept of "culture" from influential anthropologists, they became far more self-questioning about their ethical and social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Filled with anecdotes and dilemmas--often funny, always vivid--Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected and unsettling than they could have imagined.

Book Cold War  Deadly Fevers

Download or read book Cold War Deadly Fevers written by Marcos Cueto and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Troubling American Women

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  • Author : Stacilee Ford
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2011-03-01
  • ISBN : 9888083112
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Troubling American Women written by Stacilee Ford and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American women have lived in Hong Kong, and in neighboring Macao, for nearly two centuries. Many were changed by their encounter with Chinese life and British colonialism. Their openness to new experiences set them apart, while their "pedagogical impulse" gave them a reputation for outspokenness that troubled others. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, newspapers, films, and other texts, Stacilee Ford tells the stories of several American women and explores how, through dramatically changing times, they communicated their notions of national identity and gender.Troubling American Womenis a lively and provocative study of cross-cultural encounters between the Hong Kong and the US and use of stereotypes of American womanhood in Hong Kong popular culture. Stacilee Fordhas lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. She teaches history and American studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Book American Statecraft

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  • Author : J. Robert Moskin
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 1250037468
  • Pages : 1002 pages

Download or read book American Statecraft written by J. Robert Moskin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial work on American diplomacy by a veteran journalist and historian is the first complete history of the U.S. Foreign Service American Statecraft is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the unsung men and women of the U.S. Foreign Service whose dedication and sacrifices have been a crucial part of our history for over two centuries. Fifteen years in the making, veteran journalist and historian Moskin has traveled the globe conducting hundreds of interviews both in and out of the State Department to look behind the scenes at America's "militiamen of diplomacy." As the nation's eyes and ears, our envoys pledge a substantial part of their lives in foreign lands working for the benefit of their nation. Endeavoring to use dialogue and negotiation as their instruments of change, our diplomats tirelessly work to find markets for American business, rescue its citizens in trouble abroad, and act in general as "America's first line of defense" in policy negotiations, keeping America out of war. But it took generations to polish these skills, and Moskin traces America's full diplomatic history, back to its amateur years coming up against seasoned Europeans during the days of Ben Franklin, now considered the father of the U.S. Foreign Service, and up to the recent Benghazi attack. Along the way, its members included many devoted and courageous public servants, and also some political spoilsmen and outright rogues. An important contribution to the political canon, American Statecraft recounts the history of the United States through the lens of foreign diplomacy.

Book Foreign Commerce Handbook

Download or read book Foreign Commerce Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exporting American Architecture  1870 2000

Download or read book Exporting American Architecture 1870 2000 written by Jeffrey W. Cody and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study examines how North American architecture had been 'transplanted' elsewhere during the twentieth century.