The Floating University

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  • The Floating University Book Detail

  • Author : Tamson Pietsch
  • Release Date : 2023-05-19
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 332
  • ISBN 13 : 0226825167
  • File Size : 96,96 MB
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The Floating University by Tamson Pietsch PDF Summary

Book Description: "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 model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"--

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The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an edu