1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466254103321

Autore

Dorn Charles

Titolo

For the common good : a new history of higher education in America / / Charles Dorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New Yok ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-1260-8

1-5017-1261-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages)

Collana

American Institutions and Society

Disciplina

378.73

Soggetti

Education, Higher - United States - History

Universities and colleges - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD -- 1. "Literary Institutions Are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good" -- 2. "The Good Order and the Harmony of the Whole Community" -- 3. "To Promote More Effectually the Grand Interests of Society" -- THE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR ERAS -- 4. "To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men" -- 5. "The Instruction Necessary to the Practical Duties of the Profession" -- RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 6. "To Qualify Its Students for Personal Success" -- 7. "This Is to Be Our Profession-To Serve the World" -- 8. "The Burden of His Ambition Is to Achieve a Distinguished Career" -- THE COLD WAR THROUGH THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 9. "A Wedding Ceremony between Industry and the University" -- 10. "To Meet the Training and Retraining Needs of Established Business" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For



the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university-in states from California to Maine-Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good?Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities-including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions-and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466498703321

Autore

Dumas Alexandre <1802-1870, >

Titolo

Le cachemire vert / / Alexandre Dumas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Ligaran, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

2-335-05033-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p.)

Disciplina

809.2

Soggetti

Drama - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Couverture; Page de Copyright; Page de titre; Distribution; Scene Première; Scène II; Scène III; Scène IV; Scène V; Scène VI; Scène VII; Scène VIII; Scène IX; Scène X; Scène XI; Scène XII; Scène XIII; Scène XIV; Scène XV; Scène XVI; Scène XVII; Scène XVIII; Scène XIX; Scène XX; Scène XXI; Scène XXII

Sommario/riassunto

Extrait : ""PACIFIQUE : Ainsi le patron n'est pas là ? LE GARÇON : Non, monsieur Pacifique, non, il n'y est pas. PACIFIQUE : Vous lui ferez assavoir qu'il y a un nouveau règlement de police introduit à l'endroit des maîtres d'hôtel. LE GARÇON : Et lequel ? PACIFIQUE : Celui d'exiger les passeports des voyageurs, et surtout ceux des voyageuses... Et, quand les passeports seront absents, de faire, dans les vingt-quatre heures, un rapport motivé à la police.""À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classiqu



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910583598203321

Autore

Garth Bryant G.

Titolo

Law as Reproduction and Revolution : An Interconnected History / / Bryant G. Garth, Yves  Dezalay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2021

[s.l.] : , : University of California Press, , 2021

ISBN

9780520382725

0520382722

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

340.09

Soggetti

Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory

Political Science / Globalization

Law / Legal History

Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 Legal Revolutions, Cosmopolitan Legal Elites, and Interconnected Histories -- Part II. Learned Law and Social Change: Theoretical Orientation and European Geneses -- 2. Sociological Perspectives on Social Change and the Role of Learned Law: Building on and Going beyond Berman and Bourdieu -- 3. Learned Law, Legal Education, Social Capital, and States: European Geneses of These Relationships and the Enduring Role of Family Capital -- Part III. The Construction of the United States as the Major Protagonist in Promoting Legal Revolution -- 4. US Legal Hybrids, Corporate Law Firms, the Langdellian Revolution in Legal Education, and the Construction of a US-Oriented International Justice through an Alliance of US Corporate Lawyers and European Professors -- 5. Social and Neoliberal Revolutions in the United States -- Part IV. From Law and Development to the Neoliberal Revolution -- Introduction -- 6. India: Colonial Path Dependencies Revisited: An Embattled Senior Bar, the Marginalization of Legal Knowledge, and Internationalized Challenges -- 7. Hong Kong as a Paradigm Case: An Open Market for Corporate Law Firms and the



Technologies of Legal Education Reform-as Chinese Hegemony Grows -- 8. South Korea and Japan: Contrasting Attacks through Legal Education Reform on the Traditional Conservative and Insular Bar -- 9. Legal Education, International Strategies, and Rebuilding the Value of Legal Capital in China -- 10. Conclusion: Combining Social Capital with Learned Capital: Competing on Different Imperial Paths -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms-a US invention-along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies.