Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501713132 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorMatthew K. Shannon is Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College.
Matthew K. Shannon is Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College.
In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with educated elites to administer an ambitious program of socioeconomic development.