Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University

440 Pages·2016·77.229 MB·English

by  James Axtell

Wisdom’s Workshop
Other Titles by James Axtell
The Educational Writings of John Locke:
A Critical Edition (1968)
The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in
Colonial New England (1974)
Indian Missions: A Critical Bibliography
(with James P. Ronda, 1978)
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America:
A Documentary History of the Sexes (1981)
The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory
of Colonial North America (1981)
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in
Colonial North America (1985)
After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of
Colonial North America (1988)
Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (1992)
The Indians’ New South: Cultural Change in
the Colonial Southeast (1997)
The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration & Defense
of Higher Education (1998)
Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins
of North America (2001)
The Making of Princeton University:
From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (2006)
The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson (2012)
W ISD OM ’ S
WOR K SHOP
�e Rise
of the
Modern
University
JA MES A XTELL
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Axtell, James.
Wisdom’s workshop: the rise of the modern university / James Axtell.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 691- 14959- 2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Education, Higher— History. I. Title.
LA174.A98 2016
378— dc23
2015020495
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Parent of sciences . . . wisdom’s special workshop
Pope Gregory IX (1231)

For Susan
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Contents
Illustrations xi
Prologue xiii
Acknowledgments xix
one
Foundings
1
two
Oxbridge
43
three
The Collegiate Way Abroad
106
four
A Land of Colleges
147
five
The German Impress
221
six
Coming of Age
276
seven
Multiversities and Beyond
316
Epilogue 363
Suggested Reading 375
Index 387