Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University

Levine, Emily J.

ISBN 10: 022634181X / ISBN 13: 9780226341811

Published by The Universtiy of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2021

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392 Seiten einige s/w-Fotos Einband u. Umschlag unten an Vorder- u. Rückseite bestoßen, von der Autorin handsigniert! 16 x 23,5 cm Sprache: englisch handsigniert 702 Gramm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
• Publisher: The Universtiy of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022634181X
• ISBN 13: 9780226341811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 702 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The first history of the ascent of American higher education told through the lens of German-American exchange.

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.

About the Author

Emily J. Levine is associate professor of education and (by courtesy) history at Stanford University. She is the author of Allies and Rivals and Dreamland of Humanists, published by the University of Chicago Press.