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The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge

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The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge - Pietsch, Tamson
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"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 ...

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The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge 2023, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226825168

Hardcover