{"product_id":"the-future-in-their-hands-rachel-grace-newman-9780520430617","title":"The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite","description":"\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Future in Their Hands\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have European or US degrees. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Rachel Grace Newman unveils the social hierarchies, political languages, and institutional mechanisms that created Mexico's foreign-educated elite. Study abroad began as a private phenomenon for young elites to acquire specific forms of knowledge and to preserve their status. But, as Newman shows, after the 1910 revolution, elites gradually convinced the Mexican state, under the guise of modernizing the nation, to underwrite their ambitions with merit-based scholarships. Student mobility naturalized the expectation that Mexico's sovereignty and development required knowledge from somewhere else. For historians of Mexico and other countries with foreign-educated elites, this book reveals the subtle, insidious processes by which states reinforce privilege through education policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Grace Newman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520430611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520430617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Rachel Grace Newman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965506175231,"sku":"9780520430617","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b855bcc-d94c-429a-a187-069fe5498cb0.jpg?v=1767281029","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-future-in-their-hands-rachel-grace-newman-9780520430617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}