During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans
traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their
research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American
institutions led the world. How did America become the center of
excellence in higher education? And what does that story reveal
about who will lead in the twenty-first century? Allies and Rivals
is the first history of the ascent of American higher education
seen through the lens of German-American exchange. In a series of
compelling portraits of such leaders as Wilhelm von Humboldt,
Martha Carey Thomas, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Emily J. Levine shows
how academic innovators on both sides of the Atlantic competed and
collaborated to shape the research university. Even as nations
sought world dominance through scholarship, universities retained
values apart from politics and economics. Open borders enabled
Americans to unite the English college and German PhD to create the
modern research university, a hybrid now replicated the world over.
In a captivating narrative spanning one hundred years, Levine
upends notions of the university as a timeless ideal, restoring the
contemporary university to its rightful place in history. In so
doing she reveals that innovation in the twentieth century was
rooted in international cooperation-a crucial lesson that bears
remembering today.
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