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- 020 __ |a 0691247587 |q (paperback)
- 020 __ |a 9780691247588 |q (paperback)
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- 050 _4 |a LA174 |b .A98 2023
- 099 __ |a CAL 022023088862
- 100 1_ |a Axtell, James, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Wisdom's workshop : |b the rise of the modern university / |c James Axtell.
- 246 30 |a Rise of the modern university
- 264 _3 |a Princeton, NJ : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2023.
- 300 __ |a xx, 417 pages : |b illustrations, map ; |c 24 cm
- 336 __ |a text |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |2 rdacarrier
- 500 __ |a First published 2016 by Princeton University Press. First paperback printing, 2023.--T.p. verso.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Foundings -- Oxbridge -- The collegiate way abroad -- A land of colleges -- The German impress -- Coming of age -- Multiversities and beyond.
- 520 __ |a When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre-Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence--Inside jacket flaps.
- 650 _0 |a Education, Higher |x History.
- 650 _0 |a Universities and colleges |x History.
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f G649.1-09/A972