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The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II - Couverture rigide

Geiger, Roger L.

 
9780691149394: The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0691149399 ISBN 13 : 9780691149394
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge. Roger Geiger, arguably today's leading historian of American higher education, vividly describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition capable of weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution as well as the evangelical fervor of the Second Great Awakening. He shows how the character of college education in different regions diverged significantly in the years leading up to the Civil War--for example, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture--and how higher education was later revolutionized by the land-grant movement, the growth of academic professionalism, and the transformation of campus life by students. By the beginning of the Second World War, the standard American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom. Breathtaking in scope and rich in narrative detail, The History of American Higher Education is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the origins and development of of higher education in the United States.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691149399
ISBN 13 
9780691149394
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
584
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