Raising the world :: child welfare in the American century /

Concerns the post World War II practice of US citizens' "adoption" of a foreign orphan (or child from a poor family) and sending aid and letters to that individual child. Also studies the NGOs that facilitated this practice. Argues that this practice was guided by the most up-to-date...

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1. Verfasser: Fieldston, Sara, 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Zusammenfassung:Concerns the post World War II practice of US citizens' "adoption" of a foreign orphan (or child from a poor family) and sending aid and letters to that individual child. Also studies the NGOs that facilitated this practice. Argues that this practice was guided by the most up-to-date contemporary theories of childhood and psychological development, and was also thought to turn the assisted children into good anti-communists
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-302) and index.
ISBN:9780674425507
0674425502
0674425529
9780674425521

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