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Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schaeper, Thomas J.
Otros Autores: Schaeper, Kathleen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Edición:Revised edition, [Updated pbk. edition].
Temas:
Rhodes scholarships > History.
Scholars > United States > Biography.
Education > United States > History > Cross-cultural studies.
Education > Great Britain > History > Cross-cultural studies.
Bourses Rhodes > Histoire.
Savants > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
EDUCATION > Higher.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Education
Rhodes scholarships
Scholars
Great Britain
United States
Biography
Biographies
Cross-cultural studies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Abbreviations and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Rhodes, South Africa, and Oxford; Chapter 2. Getting Started; Chapter 3. The Setting; Chapter 4. Yanks and Brits; Chapter 5. The Scholar-Athletes; Chapter 6. Programmatic Changes; Chapter 7. Interwar Years; Chapter 8. Interwar Years; Chapter 9. Postwar Problems and Adjustments; Chapter 10. The Cold War and the Silent Generation; Chapter 11. Bill Clinton and Friends; Chapter 12. New Voices, New Faces I; Chapter 13. New Voices, New Faces II
  • Chapter 14. Careers and AccomplishmentsChapter 15. The Oxford Factor; Chapter 16. The Rhodes Ahead; Appendix. U.S. Rhodes Scholars, 1904-2006*; Select Bibliography ; Index

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