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Wisdom's Workshop - The Rise of the Modern University (Hardcover)
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Wisdom's Workshop - The Rise of the Modern University (Hardcover)
Series: The William G. Bowen Series
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When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX
described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have
foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop.
Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research
university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable
incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable
institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular,
James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American
universities took on Continental influences, developing into the
finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for
kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to
the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself,
becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States
and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in
America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs
proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded
greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the
legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine
colonial and hundreds of pre-Civil War colleges, and delves into
how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in
German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic
conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the
research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American
university system and higher education institutions around the
globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's
research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for
their ascendancy in America and their continued international
preeminence.
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