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Title The liberal arts tradition [electronic resource] : a documentary history / Bruce A. Kimball.

Imprint Lanham [Md.] : University Press of America, 2010.

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Description viii, 511 p.
Note Published in cooperation with the Association for Core Texts and Courses.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. The disputed origins -- Section 1. Debates in antiquity -- Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery -- Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500 -- Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600 -- Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college -- Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s -- Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s -- Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s -- Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century -- Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Education, Humanistic -- United States -- History.
Education, Humanistic -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kimball, Bruce A., 1951-
Association for Core Texts and Courses.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780761851325 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761851332 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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