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- Book Title
- Exchange of Ideas : The Economy of Higher Education in Early Amer
- ISBN
- 9780226828497
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Exchange of Ideas : the Economy of Higher Education in Early America
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 25 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. American scholars might once have imagined that higher education could sit beyond the sphere of market activity--that intellectual exchange could transcend vulgar consumerism--but already by the end of the eighteenth century, they saw how ideas could be factored into the nation's balance of trade. Moreover, they concluded that it was the function of colleges to oversee the complex process whereby knowledge could be priced and purchased. The history of capitalism and the history of higher education, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined--which raises a host of important and strikingly urgent questions. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy?
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226828492
ISBN-13
9780226828497
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22059115483
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Exchange of Ideas : the Economy of Higher Education in Early America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
25 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Lc67.62.N46 2023
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In this remarkable book, Adam Nelson offers a dazzling reinterpretation of the origins of American higher education through the lens of political economy. He carefully reconstructs how material constraints, political maneuvers, and social theory interacted to produce our decentralized, diverse, market-driven 'system' of higher education. In doing so, Nelson demonstrates that the tensions that seem to define contemporary higher education, such as the commodification of knowledge and globalization, in fact have long roots reaching back to the beginning of the nation., Should American colleges and universities serve the public good? It all depends on what we mean by 'the public,'of course, and what we imagine would be 'good' for it. Adam Nelson has produced the first full history of how Americans established and funded higher education, and--especially--of how they deliberated its fundamental purposes. From now on, anyone who wants understand that debate--or to enter into it themselves--will have to consult this groundbreaking book., This book and its companion, Capital of Mind , represent a monumental achievement. They will fundamentally alter how we understand virtually every feature of US higher education during more than a century of its history. Nelson's work will cause a major splash and encourage readers to radically alter their views of the educational landscape before the Civil War. With these books, the history of American colleges and universities will never again look the same.
Table of Content
Preface Introduction Part I: From Mercantilism to Republicanism Academic Mercantilism 1. "Hearts and Purses" 2. "Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences" 3. "Bethesda College" and "Hampshire College" A Republic of Knowledge 4. "A Center of Intelligence" 5. "The University of the State of Pennsylvania" 6. "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" Part II: From Republicanism to Nationalism Intellectual Independence 7. "Educated in His Own Country" 8. "Knowledge . . . Has Been the Least of Our Importations" 9. "An Equal Diffusion of Literature" The Idea of a (National) University 10. "Here, the Human Mind Is in a State of Fermentation" 11. "The Rights and Duties of Neutral States" 12. "To Supersede the Necessity of Sending the Youth of This Country Abroad" Part III: From Nationalism to Liberalism Imported Ideas . . . Imported Infidelity 13. An Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education 14. "All the Wisdom of the World" 15. "University of North America" A "Liberal" Education? 16. "Of the Profits of the Man of Science" 17. "The State Offers Very Inconsiderable Motives for the Acquisition of Knowledge" 18. "A Utopian Dream" Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
Copyright Date
2023
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, History
Lccn
2023-002878
Dewey Decimal
378.73
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20230126
Genre
Education, History
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