{"product_id":"innocents-abroad-jonathan-zimmerman-9780674032064","title":"Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eProtestant missionaries in Latin America. Colonial \"civilizers\" in the Pacific. Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa. Since the 1890s, thousands of American teachers--mostly young, white, middle-class, and inexperienced--have fanned out across the globe. \u003ci\u003eInnocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of what they intended to teach and what lessons they learned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive archives of the teachers' letters and diaries, as well as more recent accounts, Jonathan Zimmerman argues that until the early twentieth century, the teachers assumed their own superiority; they sought to bring civilization, Protestantism, and soap to their host countries. But by the mid-twentieth century, as teachers borrowed the concept of \"culture\" from influential anthropologists, they became far more self-questioning about their ethical and social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFilled with anecdotes and dilemmas--often funny, always vivid--Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected and unsettling than they could have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674032063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674032064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Jonathan Zimmerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46334415765759,"sku":"9780674032064","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3f9fe64-cd2c-4d01-8c51-55ab98fa4f75.jpg?v=1731466777","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/innocents-abroad-jonathan-zimmerman-9780674032064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}