Breaking the academic mould : economists and American higher learning in the nineteenth century

Author(s)

• Barber, William J.
• Adelstein, Richard P. (Richard Philip)

Bibliographic Information

Breaking the academic mould : economists and American higher learning in the nineteenth century

edited by William J. Barber ; contributors, Richard P. Adelstein ... [et al.]

Wesleyan University Press, c1988

1st ed

Note

Bibliography: p. 377-451

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Studies of the economists who struggled to establish a secure place for their discipline in American universities in the 19th c., and made significant contributions to the reshaping of American academic life. They were often at war among themselves as they sought to define the mission and methods of

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Details

• NCID: BA04942732
• ISBN:
  • 0819551767
• LCCN: 87021023
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Middletown, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 469 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB74.8
  • DC19 : 330/.07/1173
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Economists -- United States -- History -- 19th century