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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- From “The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem” (1902)
- From “The Relation of Teachers to the Peace Movement” (1908)
- From “The Teaching of History and World Peace” (1921)
- From “The Creation of the International Mind” (c. 1931/1932)
- From The Disarmament Illusion (1942)
- From Problems of Mass Education (1947)
- From Common Sense and World Affairs (1955)
- From “The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (c. 1960s)
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Eileen Power
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Merze Tate
- Margaret Read
- Dorothy Fosdick
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Eileen Power
from 10 - Public Opinion and Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- From “The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem” (1902)
- From “The Relation of Teachers to the Peace Movement” (1908)
- From “The Teaching of History and World Peace” (1921)
- From “The Creation of the International Mind” (c. 1931/1932)
- From The Disarmament Illusion (1942)
- From Problems of Mass Education (1947)
- From Common Sense and World Affairs (1955)
- From “The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” (c. 1960s)
- Nannie Helen Burroughs
- Fannie Fern Andrews
- Eileen Power
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Merze Tate
- Margaret Read
- Dorothy Fosdick
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
The teacher of history who is also a believer in what (for want of a better word) we call internationalism, must often have asked himself in despondency why it is that the teaching of history in the past has so often worked against peace and international good feeling. For certainly the devil can quote history to his purpose and Clio has too often been a vivandière in the army of politicians and militarists, instead of a grave and just muse, whose equal gaze surveys the world and whose hands weigh men’s deeds in a balance. The historian is driven to demand of himself whether history is not indeed an unmitigated curse to humanity, keeping alive the memory of old enmities better dead, teaching that because a thing has been therefore it always shall be; a sort of malignant old man of the sea, clinging to our shoulders and preventing us from moving to new and better things. […]
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 541 - 546Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022