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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Guide to Reprints
Author: Literature and the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Randall StevensonPublisher: Oxford Textual Perspectives
ISBN: 0199596441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Literature and the Great War offers a fresh, challenging interpretation of the literature of the period, reappraising the settled assumptions through which war writing has come to be read in recent years.
Library Collections at Harvard, Yale, and Brown from the 1780's to the 1860's
Author: Louis John PishaLand-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt
Author: Nathan M. SorberPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712373
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Clearly written and compellingly argued, Nathan Sorber's Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt should be read by every land-grant institution graduate and faculty and staff member, and by all high government officials who deal with public higher education.― Times Higher Education Sorber's history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century. The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt, Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic context, and its influence on the origins, development, and standardization of land-grant colleges. The first land-grant colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a modern, bureaucratized nation-state. The new land-grant colleges contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that supported emerging industries. During the populist revolts chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the center of American democracy.
Classics in Education
Author: National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
American Universities and Colleges
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Includes descriptions of all accredited institutions of higher education offering a baccalaureate or higher degree. Also includes general information on professional and higher education in the U.S. Tables and appendices contain data on enrollment and degrees awarded.
Books in Series
Author: Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America
Author: Michael MecklerPublisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792325
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
history and illustrates how the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to influence political theory and determine policy in the United States, from the education of the Founders to the War in Iraq.