The floating university experience, empire, and the politics of knowledge / Tamson Pietsch.
| Author/creator | Pietsch, Tamson, 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
| Description | 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : how to know the world? -- Professor Lough's big idea -- The university flexes its muscles -- A shipboard education -- Scandal and the press -- America's classroom -- Students of empire -- Other ways of knowing -- Assessing the experiment -- Thinking with failure. |
| Abstract | "In 1926, New York University's Floating University sailed 500 American collegians around the globe, hoping to make them better citizens of the world and demonstrate a new educational model. It didn't go well. Tamson Pietsch here excavates a rich picture of this folly, its origins, and the insights it affords into an America that was being defined increasingly by both imperialism and the professionalization of higher education. For Pietsch, the voyage traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to somehow model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022040054 |
| ISBN | 9780226825168 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |