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Stand, Columbia – A History of Columbia University: Columbiana

Autor Robert Mccaughey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 noi 2003
Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest educational institutions, this book presents the history of Columbia University that extends from the earliest discussions in 1704 about New York City being "a fit Place for a colledge" to the inauguration of president Lee Bollinger, the nineteenth, on Morningside Heights.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231130080
ISBN-10: 0231130082
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 164 x 238 x 51 mm
Greutate: 1.18 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Columbiana


Notă biografică

Robert McCaughey is the chairman of the Barnard History Department and the former dean of the faculty of Barnard College. He is the author of The Last Federalist: Josiah Quincy, 1772¿1864 and International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Academic Enclosure of American Learning, among other books.

Cuprins

1. Tory Preamble: The Short History of King's College
2. Flirting with Republicanism, 1784--1816
3. Knickerbocker Days: The Limits of Academic Reform
4. Midcentury Stirrings
5. Takeoff
6. The Aspect of a University
7. Bolt to the Top
8. 1917: Twilight of Idols
9. Jews at Columbia
10. The Invention of Columbia College
11. Prosperity Lost
12. Columbia in the American Century
13. A Second Flowering
14. Afternoon on the Hudson
15. Riding the Whirlwind: Columbia '68
16. It's About Columbia
17. A Tough Place
18. Bottoming Out
19. Columbia Recovered
20. The Way We Are
Epilogue: Worth the Candle?