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.

Provincializing the Worldly Citizen examines travel to Czechoslovakia by Yugoslav educators and students in the 1920s and 1930s in the context of educational modernization and national identity formation. It argues that -Slavic Cosmopolitanism- was an important element in educating the Yugoslav child and in the development of schooling practices in Yugoslavia. The book examines how notions of -Slavicness- circulated and were related to visions of the ideal Yugoslav, linking together these two concerns not merely to cross-fertilize Slavic studies, the history of education, and the field...