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

Other author Hollinger, David A.
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionvi, 421 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
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.

Variant title Humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War 2
Variant title Humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War two
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005026651
ISBN0801883903 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780801883903

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