War, education and state formation: problems of territorial and political integration in the United States, 1848–1912
| Autor: | Nancy Beadie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Public administration Colonialism State formation 0506 political science Education Politics Spanish Civil War State (polity) Foreign policy Political economy Voting 050602 political science & public administration Sociology 0503 education Citizenship media_common |
| Zdroj: | Paedagogica Historica. 52:58-75 |
| ISSN: | 1477-674X 0030-9230 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00309230.2015.1133672 |
| Popis: | After the Civil War (1861–1865), the United States faced a problem of “reconstruction” similar to that confronted by other nations at the time and familiar to the US since at least the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). The problem was one of territorial and political (re)integration: how to take territories that had only recently been operating under “foreign” governance and integrate them into an expanded nation-state on common structural terms. This paper considers the significance of education in that process of state (re)formation after the Civil War, with particular attention to its role in federal territories of the US West. Specifically, this paper analyses the role that education-based restrictions on citizenship, voting rights and office-holding played in constructing formal state power in the cases of five western territories: Hawaii, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. A focus on the significance of education in these cases both advances and challenges literature on the ... |
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