Teaching empire : Native Americans, Filipinos, and US imperial education, 1879-1918

Summary: "In The Teachers' Dilemma, Elisabeth Eittreim juxtaposes the Carlisle boarding school for Native Americans and the colonial school system in the Philippines to explore American attempts to assimilate colonized peoples through education. Eittreim focuses on the role of teachers, whose personal beliefs and circumstances often took precedence over the government's larger mission. Ultimately, she argues that the extent to which empire was shaped in the schoolhouse was heavily dependent on the successes and failures of the individual teachers on the front lines of imperial education"--

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ISBN: 9780700628599
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Physical Description: xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: An intimate and fragile empire -- 1 The journey to teach -- 2 Life at Carlisle, 1879-1918 -- 3 Discipline at Carlisle, 1879-1918 -- 4 Life and death on the islands, 1901-1918 -- After the(ir) service: Reflections on imperial education -- Conclusion: Legacies of imperial education -- Appendix 1: Carlisle teachers, including work immediately after Carlisle -- Appendix 2: Philippines teachers (Thomasites), including work immediately after Philippines -- Appendix 3: Student attendance at Carlisle.