The Postwar University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postwar University write by Stefan Muthesius. This book was released on 2000. The Postwar University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "But this book is less concerned with a single utopian dream than with the complex stories of a great number of utopianist realities. It deals with the efforts as much as with the results, investigating the creation of institutions by charting the interaction of the diverse agendas of designers, educationalists, sociologists and politicians, tied, as they were, into each country's own traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment
The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment write by Perrin Selcer. This book was released on 2018-09-25. The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea of world government. In The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment, Perrin Selcer argues that the metaphor of “Spaceship Earth”—the idea of the planet as a single interconnected system—exemplifies this moment, when a mix of anxiety and hope inspired visions of world community and the proliferation of international institutions. Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped make the “global”—as in global population, global climate, and global economy—an object in need of governance. Selcer traces how UN programs such as UNESCO’s Arid Lands Project, the production of a soil map of the world, and plans for a global environmental-monitoring system fell short of utopian ambitions to cultivate world citizens but did produce an international community of experts with influential connections to national governments. He shows how events and personalities, cultures and ecologies, bureaucracies and ideologies, decolonization and the Cold War interacted to make global knowledge. A major contribution to global history, environmental history, and the history of development, this book relocates the origins of planetary environmentalism in the postwar politics of scale.
The Cold War & the University
The Cold War & the University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cold War & the University write by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 1997. The Cold War & the University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores what happened to the university in the postwar years and why these changes occurred
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 write by Linda Eisenmann. This book was released on 2006-01-19. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.
The Rise of American Research Universities
The Rise of American Research Universities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of American Research Universities write by Hugh Davis Graham. This book was released on 1997-01-08. The Rise of American Research Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the Second World War, few universities in the United States had earned high respect among the international community of scholars and scientists. Since 1945, however, the distinctive attributes of American higher education—decentralized administration, pluralistic and research-minded faculties, and intense competition for government funding—have become world standard. Whether measured by Nobel and other prizes, international applications for student admissions and faculty appointments, or the results of academic surveys, America's top research universities are the best in the world. The Rise of American Research Universities provides a fresh historical interpretation of their ascendancy and a fresh, comprehensive estimate of their scholarly achievement. Hugh Davis Graham and Nancy Diamond question traditional methods of rating the reputation and performance of universities; they offer instead an empirical analysis of faculty productivity based on research grants received, published research, and peer approval of that work. Comparing the research achievements of faculty at more than 200 institutions, they differ with most studies of higher education in measuring performance in every academic field—from medicine to humanities—and in analyzing data on research activity in terms of institutional size. In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist "golden years" of the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.
