Cultivating Regionalism

Name: Cultivating Regionalism
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780875804446
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Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest

Автор: Kenneth Wheeler

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Издател: Cornell University Press

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In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American...

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Автор

Kenneth Wheeler

Език

Английски език

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Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2011

страници

166

EAN

9780875804446

ISBN

0875804446

Enbook ID

04750231

Издател

Cornell University Press

Теглоt

666

Размери

152 x 229 x 20

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In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making--the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges inthe Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through higher education, the values of people living north and west of the Ohio River formed the basis of a new Midwestern culture.Cultivating Regionalism shows how college founders built robust institutions of higher learning in this socially and ethnically diverse milieu. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these colleges were much different than their counterparts in the East and South--not derivative of them as manyhistorians suggest. Manual labor programs, for instance, nurtured a Midwestern zeal for connecting mind and body. And the coeducation of men and women at these schools exploded gender norms throughout the region.Students emerging from these colleges would ultimately shape the ethos of the Progressive era and in large numbers take up scientific investigation as an expression of their egalitarian, production-oriented training. More than a history of these antebellum schools, this elegantly conceived work exposes the interplay in regionalism between thought and action--who antebellum Midwesterners imagined they were and how they built their colleges in distinct ways.

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