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Thorstein Veblen

The Higher Learning in America: The Annotated Edition

A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men

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Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen¿s The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen¿s classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction discusses the book¿s composition and publishing history, Veblen¿s debts to earlier critics of the American university, and the place of The Higher Learning in America in current debates about the American university.Veblen¿s insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Teichgraeber, Richard F. (Tulane University) (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1678-6
  • EAN: 9781421416786
  • Produktnummer: 17193035
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H15.4 cm x B23.1 cm x D1.9 cm 368 g
  • Abbildungen: 6 Halftones, black and white
  • Gewicht: 368
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


One of the most influential social scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) wrote numerous books, including The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions and The Instinct of Workmanship: And the State of the Industrial Arts. Richard F. Teichgraeber III is a professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867- 1910 and Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market.

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