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This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin s Experimental College in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life s work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?

In this first volume of a planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge itself was commodified, starting in the late eighteenth century. Nelson follows the market transformation in the age of revolutions to show how American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism...

In the second volume of his planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge, which had been commodified starting in the late eighteenth century, became industrialized in the nineteenth century. Nelson explains how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass con...

Die USA stehen kurz vor ihrem Untergang. Politische Konflikte, Krankheiten, Armut und Überbevölkerung sorgen für Ressourcenknappheit und die Regierung sieht nur einen Ausweg: alles Leben im Staatsgebiet mit Gift auszulöschen. Die wenigen Überlebende schließen sich in Stämmen zusammen, denen jedes Mittel recht ist, um ihr Territorium zu verteidigen. Um dieser brutalen, post-apokalyptischen Welt zu entkommen, brechen Nina (Kate Bosworth, "Superm...

In recent years, federal mandates on education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal--"a postwar history of federal involvement in the Boston public school system--provides lessons from the past that shed light on the continuing struggles of urban public schools today. This wide-reaching analysis examines the failure of educational policy at local, state, and federal levels to afford all students equ...

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A biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn that tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Wisconsin's 'Experimental College' in the early twentieth century. It also features his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era.

These nine essays examine "how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television, all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. Offering multiple perspectives, including print culture history, literary studies, labour history, gender history, the history of race, and the history of childhood and adolescen...