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Title The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II / edited by David A. Hollinger
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 421 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Who's afraid of Marcel Proust? the failure of general education in the American university / John Guillory -- Demography and curriculum : the humanities in American higher education from the 1950s through the 1980s / Roger L. Geiger -- The scholar and the world : academic humanists and general readers / Joan Shelley Rubin -- The ambivalent virtues of mendacity : how Europeans taught (some of us) to learn to love the lies of politics / Martin Jay -- The place of value in a culture of facts : truth and historicism / James T. Kloppenberg -- Philosophy and inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001 / Bruce Kuklick -- Catholics, catholicism, and the humanities, 1945-1985 / John T. McGreevy -- The Black scholar, the humanities, and the politics of racial knowledge since 1945 / Jonathan Scott Holloway -- Women in the humanities : taking their place / Rosalind Rosenberg -- American studies and the expansion of the humanities / Leila Zenderland -- The ironies of the iron curtain : the cold war and the rise of Russian studies / David C. Engerman -- What is Japan to us? / Andrew E. Barshay -- Havana and Macondo : the humanities side of U.S Latin American studies, 1940-2000 / Rolena Adorno
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Humanities -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Learned institutions and societies -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Multicultural education -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Education -- Demographic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Demography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Demography
Education -- Demographic aspects
Humanities
Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Learned institutions and societies
Learning and scholarship
Multicultural education
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hollinger, David A.
LC no. 2005026651
ISBN 9780801889424
0801889421
9780801883903
0801883903