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Fung Book Talk | Masako Hattori, The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars
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Dr. Hattori's book tackles the complicated relationship between youth, national security, and education from World War I to World War II. It reveals how the United States created a time-specific political and social category of youth that relied on the expectation that military-age men should devote themselves to the future of their country. Analyzing policies from the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the New Deal, wartime military training programs, and those governing the post-World War II occupation of Japan, Masako Hattori demonstrates that the priorities of national security conditioned young people's access to education in the US in the first half of the twentieth century, in both wartime and peacetime, and explores how the evolving link between youth, education, and national security shaped and reshaped the cultural concept of “youth” in American society.
A QR code will be distributed to attendees to pre-order the book online from Labyrinth Books. Bookplates will also be distributed to event attendees.
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Where
Louis A. Simpson Intl Bldg, room 144
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Speakers
Masako Hattori
Fung Global Fellow
PIIRS, Princeton University
Masako Hattori teaches U.S. political and diplomatic history at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include war and society, imperialism and nationalism, and social policy, as well as the U.S. in the Asia-Pacific. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of “The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars.” During her fellowship year, she will work on her second book project, which explores the relationship between imperialism, tourism and public memory in twentieth-century Japan.
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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Global Japan Lab, PIIRS
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