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  • - A New History of Higher Education in America
    af Charles Dorn
    311,95 - 340,95 kr.

    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries...

  • - Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America
    af Romain D. Huret
    532,95 kr.

    In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverte?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government...

  • - Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
    af Tobin Miller Shearer
    332,95 kr.

    Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States.

  • - A History of American Camping
    af Terence Young
    342,95 kr.

    In Heading Out, Young takes the reader out into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.

  • - Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
    af Andrea L. Turpin
    549,95 kr.

    In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture.

  • - Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy
    af Campbell F. Scribner
    432,95 kr.

    In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law.

  • - The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War
    af Joy Rohde
    269,95 - 394,95 kr.

    During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was...

  • - The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
    af Joseph Kett
    319,95 kr.

    The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this book.

  • - Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing
    af Peter Eisenstadt
    466,95 kr.

    The history of Rochdale Village in Queens, New York, once the world's largest housing coop, from its planning, to the civil rights demonstrations at its construction site in 1963, through the late 1970s, ending with a look at life in Rochdale today.

  • - The Origins and Evolution of No Child Left Behind
    af Jesse H. Rhodes
    260,95 kr.

    "Published in association with the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs."

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