Raising The World: Child Welfare In The American Century

Sara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe.

• | Author: Sara Fieldston
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674368096
• | ISBN-13: 9780674368095