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  • Research and Relevant Knowledge

    American Research Universities Since World War II

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Knowledge and Money

    Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Market forces have profoundly affected the contemporary research university's fundamental tasks of creating and disseminating knowledge. They arguably have provided American universities access to greater wealth, better students, and stronger links with the economy. Yet they also have exaggerated inequalities, diminished the university's control over its own activities, and weakened the university ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The History of American Higher Education

    Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher educationThis 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 ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

    Volume 24, 2005

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective "yes!" ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

    Volume 26, 2007

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age-perspectives that continue to define the debate today. A. J. Angulo recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether presented as an alternative to or a repudiation of the prevailing ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Philadelphia Gentlemen

    The Making of a National Upper Class

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Iconic Leaders in Higher Education

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
    Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and university presidents who acquired iconic qualities that transcend mere identification with their institution.The volume begins with Roger L. Geiger's observation that creating and controlling one's image requires managing publicity. Andrea Turpin describes ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • To Advance Knowledge

    The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • American Higher Education since World War II

    A History

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationAmerican higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides the most complete and in-depth history of this remarkable ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • History of Higher Education Annual: 2003-2004

    by Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series History of Higher Education Annual
    History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina. Other contributions examine town-gown relations for ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Kathleen Woodward, Yolanda Moses, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Charlotte Melin, Bethany Nowviskie0, John McGowan1, Jeffrey J. Williams2, Christopher Newfield3 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Ideas for the Ice Age

    Studies in a Revolutionary Era

    Edited by Max Lerner, Roger L. Geiger ...
    Ideas for the Ice Age is a companion volume to Max Lerner's classic work Ideas Are Weapons. Both were written mostly in the 1930s, as products of a period when the democratic idea was under heavy siege from totalitarian ideologies of the right and left., In its focus, Ideas for the Ice Age is a study of the task of democracy in a revolutionary era, an enterprise that has taken on new urgency in ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD