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America and the making of modern Turkey : science, culture and political alliances /
"After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of American schools was set up across t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2018.
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| Colección: | Library of modern Turkey ;
34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Author Biography; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Research and Literature; 1. Science and Medicine: Pillars of Republic; The Rockefeller Foundation and Pioneersof Scientific Medicine; Advancing the Nation through Healthcare; Fellows and Projects after 1945; 2. Remedies of Underdevelopment; Technicians of Industrial Development: Robert CollegeSchool of Engineering and METU; Setting up the Framework for Turkish Education; Teaching of Science; 3. The Age of Experts; Business Development and Management Programmes in Turkey
- The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Sciences in TurkeyThe Birth of Area Studies; 4. Humanities and Westernisation; Islam in Turkey and the Creative Minority; Projects, Fellows and Turkish Westernisation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index