Overview
- Examines the paradoxical relation between nationalism and internationalism in interwar Turkey
- Offers new insights into the rise of American progressive education in the non-Western world after World War I
- Engages with recently declassified primary sources to tell a new history of Robert College
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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About this book
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 Atatürk’s 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.
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“By using new archival material, Sjöberg has written a fascinating account of the Robert College in Istanbul in the crucial years of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. In addition to presenting a highly original history of this premier institution, Sjöberg also explains how the idealist hopes for liberal education were crushed in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.” (Reşat Kasaba, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA)
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Book Title: Internationalism and the New Turkey
Book Subtitle: American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933
Authors: Erik Sjöberg
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00932-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00931-0Published: 07 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-00934-1Published: 07 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-00932-7Published: 06 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 264
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Education