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Title:

The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II / edited by David A. Hollinger.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vi, 421 p. ; 24 cm.

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--History--United States--History--20th century.
Demography--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Hollinger, David A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 in postwar America / 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 since World War II / 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 -- Constructing American studies: culture, identity, 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 in U.S Latin American studies, 1940-2000 / Rolena Adorno.

ISBN:

9780801883903
0801883903 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61724339

LCCN:

2005026651

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)