Cornell: A History, 1940–2015
Author:   Glenn C. Altschuler ,  Isaac Kramnick
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9780801444258


Pages:   544
Publication Date:   12 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Glenn C. Altschuler ,  Isaac Kramnick
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   1.361kg
ISBN:  

9780801444258


ISBN 10:   080144425
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   12 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Preface: The ""Cornell Idea"" Authors' Note Part I: 1945-1963 1. Building a Research University 2. The Death of ""In Loco Parentis"" 3. The ""Cold War"" at Cornell Part II: 1963-1977 4. The Bureaucratic University and Its Discontents 5. Race at Cornell 6. The Wars at Home Part III: 1977-1995 7. The Rhodes Years 8. Academic Identity Politics 9. Political Engagement, Divestment, and Cornell's Two China Policy Part IV: 1995-2015 10. A Tale of Three Presidents 11. West Campus, Suicide, and Student ""Wellness"" 12. Going Global Postscript Notes"

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Glenn C. Altschuler is Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is a former columnist for the New York Times and the author or coauthor of several books, including Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century and All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. Isaac Kramnick is Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University, where he also served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and faculty-elected member of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or editor of many books, including studies of the American founding fathers, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, and the twentieth-century Englishman Harold Laski.

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