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Author Sorber, Nathan M., author.

Title Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education / Nathan M. Sorber.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement -- Experimentation in antebellum higher education -- Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges -- The land-grant reformation -- The new middle class and the state college ideal -- Progressivism and the rise of extension -- Coeducation and land-grant women -- Conclusion : land-grant memories, legacies, and horizons.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject United States. Land Grant Act of 1862.
State universities and colleges -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Educational change -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Education, Higher -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sorber, Nathan M. Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018 xi, 242 pages 9781501712371 (DLC) 2018023461
ISBN 9781501712371
9781501715174
9781501709739 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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