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29 produkter
The University and the City
From Medieval Origins to the Present
Häftad, 1991
1207 kr
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This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel …
Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century
Av Thomas Bender, Philip F. Katz m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
321 kr
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An examination and analysis of history education in American colleges and universitiesIn 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.S. colleges and universities. Published in 1962 and addressing such issues as the supply …
Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century
Av Thomas Bender, Philip F. Katz m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
585 kr
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An examination and analysis of history education in American colleges and universities In 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.S. colleges and universities. Published in 1962 and addressing such issues as the supply …
NEW YORK INTELLECT
E-bok, 2013
252 kr
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New York Intellect is Thomas Bender''s remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender
Inbunden, 2009
2749 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender
Häftad, 2011
751 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
Antislavery Debate
Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
Häftad, 1992
286 kr
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This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development. The essays delve beyond these issues, …
Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Häftad, 2002
286 kr
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In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By …
Rethinking American History in a Global Age
E-bok, 2002
482 kr
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In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By …
American Academic Culture in Transformation
Fifty Years, Four Disciplines
Av Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske
Häftad, 1998
713 kr
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In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce …
American Academic Culture in Transformation
Fifty Years, Four Disciplines
Av Carl E. Schorske, Thomas Bender
E-bok, 2021
832 kr
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In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce …
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Av Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender
Häftad, 2001
751 kr
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This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, …
Community and Social Change in America
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a fundamental element of American society.
Toward an Urban Vision
Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1982
391 kr
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Unfinished City
New York and the Metropolitan Idea
Häftad, 2007
368 kr
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Throughout American history, cities have been a powerful source of inspiration and energy, nourishing the spirit of invention and the world of intellect, and fueling movements for innovation and reform. In The Unfinished City, nationally renowned urban scholar Thomas Bender examines the source of …
Urban Imaginaries
Locating the Modern City
Häftad, 2007
287 kr
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For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Thomas Bender, Ignacio Farias
E-bok, 2012
864 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Thomas Bender, Ignacio Farias
E-bok, 2012
883 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Av Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender
Inbunden, 2018
2516 kr
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This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, …
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Av Thomas Bender, Michael Peter Smith
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, …
City and Nation
Rethinking Place and Identity
Av Thomas Bender, Michael Peter Smith
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, …
Revolution!
The Atlantic World Reborn
Av Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
562 kr
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'Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn' is an original illustrated volume which accompanies the landmark international travelling exhibition opening at the New York Historical Society in November 2011. This fascinating book brings together three globally influential revolutions - in America, …
ePaymentsysteme
Eine Analyse existierender ePaymentsysteme illustriert an zwei Fallbeispielen aus dem Content-Bereich
Häftad, 2003
1230 kr
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Destruktiver Wahn zwischen Psychiatrie und Politik
Av Thomas Bender, Thomas Auchter
Häftad, 2004
416 kr
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New York Intellect
A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time
Häftad, 1988
228 kr
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New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of …
Intellect and Public Life
Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States
Häftad, 1997
242 kr
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Periodic "crises" in our academic culture remind us that the organization of our intellectual life is a product of history-neither fixed by the logic of social development nor inherent in the nature of knowledge itself. At a time of much unease in academia and among the general public about the …
American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005
Documenting the National Discourse
Av Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender
Inbunden, 2008
811 kr
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This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years. The volume includes such …
Unfinished City
New York and the Metropolitan Idea
Inbunden, 2002
329 kr
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Throughout history, cities have been a powerful source of inspiration and energy, nourishing the spirit of invention and the world of intellect and fuelling movements for innovation and reform. In this text, urban scholar Thomas Bender uses New York City to plumb the source of the city's power and …
