Elisabeth Eittreim is a lecturer in the History Department at Rutgers University and an adjunct in the Women’s Studies Department at Georgian Court University.
After the Indian wars and the nation’s subsequent conquest of the
Philippines, it fell to teachers to win over the hearts and minds
of children now living within the confines of the American empire.
In this important study, Eittreim tells us much about who these
teachers were, their role in advancing the colonial project, and
their day-to-day encounters with the ‘other.’" - David Wallace
Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the
Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 and Three Roads to Magdalena:
Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890–1990
"Colonization does not just happen. It requires human agency. By
placing the foot soldiers of assimilation and civilization at the
center of the story, Elisabeth Eittreim offers salient historical
lessons for how ordinary Americans have actively shaped the
contours and practices of the US imperial education project. As
this important book suggests, if we have the capacity to advance
colonial rule, we also have the capacity to dismantle it." - Clif
Stratton, author of Education for Empire: American Schools, Race,
and the Paths of Good Citizenship
"This important new look at teaching in the context of empire is
engaging, enraging, and intimate. From Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to
Manilla, American teachers at the turn of the twentieth century
followed closely behind the violent expansion of the American
empire in search of work, adventure, and meaning. In vivid prose,
Eittreim recovers their world, unpacking the quotidian paradoxes of
living, loving, surviving, and, of course, teaching at the end of a
gun." - Benjamin Justice, professor and chair of the Department of
Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration, Rutgers Graduate
School of Education
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