Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East
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Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East

The Franklin Book Programs in Iran

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East

The Franklin Book Programs in Iran

About this book

WINNER OF THE 2023 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.
The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized by the United States' government agencies as well as private corporations. The FBP was initially intended to promote U.S. liberal values, combat Soviet influence and to create appropriate markets for U.S. books in 'Third World' of which the Middle East was an important part, but evolved into an international educational program publishing university textbooks, schoolbooks, and supplementary readings. In Iran, working closely with the Pahlavi regime, its activities included the development of printing, publishing, book distribution, and bookselling institutions.
This book uses archival sources from the FBP, US intelligence agencies and in Iran, to piece together this relationship. Put in the context of wider cultural diplomacy projects operated by the US, it reveals the extent to which the programme shaped Iran's educational system. Together the history of the FBP, its complex network of state and private sector, the role of U.S. librarians, publishers, and academics, and the joint projects the FBP organized in several countries with the help of national ministries of education, financed by U.S. Department of State and U.S. foundations, sheds new light on the long history of education in imperialist social orders, in the context here of the ongoing struggle for influence in the Cold War.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780755643424
eBook ISBN
9780755643448
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
History of Education
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. A Note on Transliteration
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1 A COLD WAR HISTORY OF BOOKS AND EDUCATION
  9. Chapter 2 CULTURAL IMPERIALISM: WHY FRANKLIN BOOK PROGRAMS MATTERS
  10. Chapter 3 FRANKLIN BOOK PROGRAMS: TRANSLATION, PUBLICATIONS, AND BOOK DISTRIBUTION DURING THE COLD WAR
  11. Chapter 5 FRANKLIN BOOK PROGRAMS IN IRAN: CONTEXT, ESTABLISHMENT, AND REGULAR TRANSLATION PROGRAMS
  12. Chapter 6 FRANKLIN BOOK PROGRAMS IN IRAN: SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS, REACTIONS TO THE TEHRAN BRANCH, AND DEMISE
  13. Chapter 7 THE COLD WAR, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, AND THE MIDDLE EAST
  14. Appendix I: The Presidents of the FBP and a List of FBP Local Branches
  15. Appendix II: Local Participation by Civic and Intellectual Leaders
  16. Notes
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. Imprint