Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher edu...
Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher edu...
Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education / Nathan M. Sorber.
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/0185
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English
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Physical content
xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement -- Experimentation in antebellum higher education -- Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges -- The land-grant reformation -- The new middle class and the state co...
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Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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"A history of the origins and early years of the land-grant colleges of the northeastern United States. Land-grant colleges of this region were not "farm schools," and, indeed, were meant to offer a service distinct from the practical education most readily available to (and most often romanticized by later scholars) young men in rural America. The...
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Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education / Nathan M. Sorber.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
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G 2019/0185
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74VKV0z6bQ23
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0z6bQ23
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ISBN
1501715178 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781501715174 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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378.7409034
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991024225019502626
