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Beyond 1492
Encounters in Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 1992
806 kr
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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th …
The European and the Indian
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 1994
418 kr
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Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
After Columbus
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 1995
1375 kr
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This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in …
Beyond 1492
Encounters in Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 1992
906 kr
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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th …
After Columbus
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 1988
963 kr
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This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America , and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in …
European and the Indian
Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 1982
168 kr
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Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.
School Upon a Hill
Education and Society in Colonial New England
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 1976
309 kr
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The School Upon a Hill is the first attempt to portray a view of education that, in the author’s words, “enables us to see the educational process if not actually through children’s eyes at least from their position in a Lilliputian universe.” Its subject is socialization: the ways in which …
Princeton Graduate School
A History
Av Willard Thorp, Minor Myers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
751 kr
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The Princeton Graduate School was born of controversy, first between President James McCosh and his opponents, who doubted the wisdom of attaching a graduate school to a small college with a religious complexion, and then between President Woodrow Wilson and the formidable Dean Andrew Fleming West. …
Making of Princeton University
From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
Av James Axtell
Inbunden, 2006
314 kr
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In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the …
Wisdom's Workshop
The Rise of the Modern University
Av James Axtell
Inbunden, 2016
296 kr
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When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to …
Making of Princeton University
From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 2021
416 kr
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In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the …
Wisdom's Workshop
The Rise of the Modern University
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 2023
271 kr
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An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite …
Indians' New South
Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
Av James Axtell
Häftad, 1997
283 kr
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In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and …
Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
From College to Nation
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 2011
837 kr
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In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson’s career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics. Together, the …
Wisdom's Workshop
The Rise of the Modern University
Av James Axtell
E-bok, 2016
388 kr
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An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom''s special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite …
Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
From College to Nation
Av James Axtell
Inbunden, 2011
650 kr
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In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson's career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics. Together, the …
