Gentlemen and Scholars (eBook, ePUB)

College and Community in the Age of the University
Redaktion: Leslie, W. Bruce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Historians have dubbed the period from the Civil War to World War I "the age of the university," suggesting that colleges, in contrast to universities, were static institutions out of touch with American society

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351310628
• Artikelnr.: 50918117

Autorenporträt

Bruce W. Leslie

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Four Colleges and Their Communities Part One Colleges and
Communities, 1865-1890 2 Rural Piety and Urban Wealth 3 When Professors Had
Servants 4 "What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?" 5 Students as Gentlemen Part
Two Convergence and Cosmopolitanism, 1890-1917 6 Piety versus Prosperity in
the Protestant College 7 Presidential Power and Academic Autonomy 8
Knowledge Fit for Protestant Gentlemen 9 "The Side Shows Have Swallowed Up
the Circus" Part Three Emergence of the Modern American College 10 The Age
of the College 11 The College in the Social Order