Global Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Global Exchanges

Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World

Edited by: Ludovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337031

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Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.

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Ludovic Tournès is Professor of International History at the University of Geneva. As a specialist of cultural and scientific transnational circulations, cultural diplomacy, and US-Europe relations, he has published five books, most recently Les Etats-Unis et la Société des Nations: le système international face à l’émergence d’une superpuissance (Peter Lang, 2015).

Giles Scott-Smith holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since World War II at Leiden University. He is Academic Director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and former Chair of the Transatlantic Studies Association. He has published three books, most recently Western Anti-Communism and the Interdoc Network: Cold War Internationale (2012).

Ludovic Tournès is Professor of International History at the University of Geneva. As a specialist of cultural and scientific transnational circulations, cultural diplomacy, and US-Europe relations, he has published five books, most recently Les Etats-Unis et la Société des Nations: le système international face à l’émergence d’une superpuissance (Peter Lang, 2015).

Reviews

“Overall, this volume is significant because it reminds scholars that education programmes, which have a history of their own, are not only vital elements of academia, but also have a role as potent elements of power politics.” • History of Education

“The volume is an exciting invitation for mobility scholars to rethink the place of knowledge mobilities within their work. It also provokes readers to consider the variety of ways in which knowledges travel and the various conceptual and methodological frameworks necessary to study them. I have no doubt that Global Exchanges is a long-awaited and important contribution not only for historians of international relations but also for mobility scholars, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists alike.” • Transfers

“This is an excellent collection that treats an important subject of historical inquiry in a long and truly global context. There is a great array of temporal and geographical examples to be found here which validate the interpretive framework and cumulatively provide a valuable and original survey of ‘the first century of official scholarship.’” • Tomás Irish, Swansea University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. A World of Exchanges: Conceptualizing the History of International Scholarship Programs (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries) Ludovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I • National and Imperial Power Politics
1 The Politics of Scholarly Exchange: Taking the Long View on the Rhodes Scholarships Tamson Pietsch and Meng-Hsuan Chou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2 The Defeat of University Autonomy: French Academic Diplomacy, Mobility Scholarships and Exchange Programs (1880s–1930s) Guillaume Tronchet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3 The Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme: Promoting Exchanges in a Changing World (1948–60) Alice Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4 Students as Ambassadors: German–American Exchange Diplomacy during the 1980s Jacob S. Eder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
PART II • International Understanding and World Peace
5 Muscular Christian Exchanges: Asian Sports Experts and the International YMCA Training School (1910s–1930s) Stefan Hübner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6 Managing Scientific Exchange in Interwar Germany: August Wilhelm Fehling and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships Judith Syga-Dubois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7 Wedges and Webs: Rockefeller Nursing Fellowships (1920–40) Pierre-Yves Saunier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8 Fellowship Programs for Public Health Development The Rockefeller Foundation, UNRRA and the WHO (1920s–1970s) Yi-Tang Lin, Thomas David and Davide Rodogno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9 New Missionaries for Social Development: The ILO Internship Program (1950–63) Véronique Plata-Stenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
PART III • The Cold War: A Golden Age of Scholarship Programs
10 The Fulbright Program and the Philosophy and Geography of US Exchange Programs since World War II Lonnie R. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
11 Grassroots Diplomacy: Fighting the Cold War on the Family Farm with the International Farm Youth Exchange Peter Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
12 Third World Students at Soviet Universities in the Brezhnev Period Julie Hessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
13 US Exchange Programs with Africa during the Civil Rights Era Hannah Higgin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
14 Working on/Working with the Soviet Bloc: IREX, Scholarly Exchanges and Détente Justine Faure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
PART IV • The Globalization Moment: New Geography and New Challenges
15 American Foundations and the Challenge of Funding International Fellowship and Exchange Programs since 1970 Patricia L. Rosenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
16 Global Networks, Soft Power and the US Military Carol Atkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
17 American Fulbrighters in China (1979–2014) Guangqiu Xu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
18 Importing Barbarian Knowledge: The JET Program and the Development of Cultural Internationalism in Japan (1987–2014) Jesse Sargent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
19 New Actors of the Post-Cold War World (Europe, China and India) Toward a Genuine Globalization of Scholarship Programs Ludovic Tournès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Conclusion: 150 Years of Scholarship Programs: Old Trends and New Prospects in the Global Landscape Giles Scott-Smith and Ludovic Tournès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Web Resources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 356
Keywords: Mobility Studies; History: 20th Century to Present; Educational Studies

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Published: October 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785337031