Can I read Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University (The William G. Bowen Series) on EtoBox?

Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University (The William G. Bowen Series) by James Axtell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University (The William G. Bowen Series) about?

An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and h

Author

James Axtell

Publisher

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691247588

Subjects

Education, History

Rating

3.62 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14