This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe.

NOAH SOBE is Assistant Professor of Cultural& Educational Policy Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Education, Loyola University, USA.

American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise; N.W.Sobe Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines; B.Justice 'The Path of Progress': Protestant Missions, Education, and US Hegemony in the 'New Cuba', 1898-1940; J.Yaremko American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia; N.W.Sobe 'The Appeal to the German Mind': Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1949; C.Dorn& B.Puaca Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the US Occupation of Japan; M.Shibata& K.Ohkura The German Post-War Educational Reform Era and the 'American Way of Life'; T.Koinzer American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-communist Europe; L.B.Perry Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s; D.Burde Allah, America, and the Army: US Involvement in South Asia and Pakistan's Education Policy; M.Ayaz Naseem Corporate Education and 'Democracy Promotion' Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International, Inc in Iraq, 2003-2004; K.J.Saltman