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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : education between Iran and the west -- The foundation : education, development, and the tenuous path of the 1950s -- The window : negotiating modernization and rights during the Kennedy era -- The youth : student internationalism during the global 1960s -- The boom : America's Iran in the 1970s -- The reckoning : human rights, Iran, and the world -- Conclusion : the internationalisms of the Iranian revolution. |
| Summary |
Matthew K. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans. Losing Hearts and Minds is a narrative rife with historical ironies. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iranian students -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Iranian students. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Educational exchanges -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
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Educational exchanges. |
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Iran. |
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Educational exchanges -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Relations -- Iran.
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Relations. |
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Iran -- Relations -- United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shannon, Matthew K., 1983- Losing hearts and minds. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713132 (DLC) 2017012368 |
| ISBN |
9781501712340 (epub/mobi) |
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1501712349 |
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9781501709708 (pdf) |
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1501709704 |
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9781501713132 |
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