James Axtell
Autore di The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di James Axtell
Opere correlate
The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis From Settlement to Superpower (2002) — alcune edizioni — 133 copie
Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Collaboratore — 63 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Axtell, James L.
- Data di nascita
- 1941-12-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Endicott, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (Trinity) (PhD|1967)
Yale University (AB|1963) - Attività lavorative
- historian
professor - Organizzazioni
- College of William and Mary
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Fellow)
- Breve biografia
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities, Department of History, College of William and Mary
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 781
- Popolarità
- #32,597
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 50
- Lingue
- 1
The book is what it says it is; a history of the universities, with heavy emphasis on the USA. It’s very detailed but pretty dry. I would have liked to see what universities, like Cambridge and Oxford, in other countries had turned into as the ones in the US matured. Sure they have not stagnated for three hundred years. What about the German system that attracted so many students from the US in years before the American system got going? Interesting book but very specialized.… (altro)