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In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education,
some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between
1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective
global history of these institutions, illustrating how their
establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation
sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long
1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies
from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how
these universities have influenced academic disciplines and
pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student
experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the
establishment of new institutions with progressive,
interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating
case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities
shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of
living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher
education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and
considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical
dimension to contemporary predicaments.
Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" ("The Plain
Dealer," Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" ("Philadelphia Daily
News") history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major
League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown
and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus
Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the
falsehoods that have accrued around baseball's origins. This is the
true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped
the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national
pastime and our national mirror.
"Baseball in the Garden of Eden" draws on original research to tell
how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually
supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other
variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and
plagued the game. From a religious society's plot to anoint Abner
Doubleday as baseball's progenitor to a set of scoundrels and
scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this
entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert
baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.
Exploring the nexus of music and religious education involves
fundamental questions regarding music itself, its nature, its
interpretation, and its importance in relation to both education
and the religious practices into which it is integrated. This
cross-disciplinary volume of essays offers the first comprehensive
set of studies to examine the role of music in educational and
religious reform and the underlying notions of music in early
modern Europe. It elucidates the context and manner in which music
served as a means of religious teaching and learning during that
time, thereby identifying the religio-cultural and intellectual
foundations of early modern European musical phenomena and their
significance for exploring the interplay of music and religious
education today.
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