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The Floating University
Experience, Empire, And The Politics Of Knowledge
- Editore:
The University Of Chicago Press
- EAN:
9780226825168
- ISBN:
0226825167
- Pagine:
- 320
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Floating University
"In 1926, New York University's Floating University sailed 500 American collegians around the globe, hoping to make them better citizens of the world and demonstrate a new educational model. It didn't go well. Tamson Pietsch here excavates a rich picture of this folly, its origins, and the insights it affords into an America that was being defined increasingly by both imperialism and the professionalization of higher education. For Pietsch, the voyage traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to somehow model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"--
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