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The experiences of French students in the United States and American students in France throughout the period 1890–1970 and their use of stereotypes to understand their hosts’ culture, to introduce their own culture to their hosts and, ultimately, to understand their own identity, are at the heart of Internationalism, National Idenities, and Study Abroad. France and the United States, 1890–1970. Refreshingly, Whitney Walton not only focuses on stereotypes of national identity, but pays equal attention to stereotypes of gender and sexuality. In fact, her analysis is at its best when she argues how strongly these three types of stereotypes were intertwined. Whitney Walton's analysis of letters, memoirs, reports and interviews with students is convincingly contextualised in a world of changing modes of transports and of shifting institutional contexts of exchange programs and funding opportunities. Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad. France and the United States, 1890–1970 is a welcome study of cultural relations and educational ties between France and the United States and wisely avoids a too exclusive focus on Americanization and the cultural reactions this provoked. This study is of interest to scholars and research students of the history of national identity, gender, higher education and the transnational transfer of ideas.
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