Description:
- The first comprehensive book on the history of scholarship programs
- A book which takes into account all geographic areas
- A book focusing on the human dimension of scholarship programs
- A book that investigates the political, economic, and cultural interests involved in exchanges
Brief description:
Ludovic Tournès is Professor of International History at the University of Geneva. As a specialist of cultural and scientific transnational circulations, cultural diplomacy, and US-Europe relations, he has published five books, most recently Les Etats-Unis et la Société des Nations: le système international face à l'émergence d'une superpuissance (Peter Lang, 2015).
Review Quotes:
"Overall, this volume is significant because it reminds scholars that education programmes, which have a history of their own, are not only vital elements of academia, but also have a role as potent elements of power politics." - History of Education
"The volume is an exciting invitation for mobility scholars to rethink the place of knowledge mobilities within their work. It also provokes readers to consider the variety of ways in which knowledges travel and the various conceptual and methodological frameworks necessary to study them. I have no doubt that Global Exchanges is a long-awaited and important contribution not only for historians of international relations but also for mobility scholars, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists alike." - Transfers
"This is an excellent collection that treats an important subject of historical inquiry in a long and truly global context. There is a great array of temporal and geographical examples to be found here which validate the interpretive framework and cumulatively provide a valuable and original survey of 'the first century of official scholarship.'" - Tomás Irish, Swansea University