The founding of Thomas Jefferson's university /

"The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University examines the development of one of America's oldest and preeminent educational institutions from a wide range of perspectives, considering aspects such as Jefferson's linked intellectual and architectural visions, the often unruly st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ragosta, John A. (Editor ), Onuf, Peter S. (Editor ), O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
Temas:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Political and social views.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
University of Virginia > History.
University of Virginia.
1800-1899
Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century.
Education, Higher.
Political and social views.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A look back at Jefferson's forward-looking mission for the university
  • From academy to college to university : the prehistory of the University of Virginia / J. Jefferson Looney
  • American education and Atlantic circulations / Neven Leddy
  • Premature men : honor, Jefferson, and the College of William & Mary / Alan Taylor
  • "Chastising a servant for his insolence" : the case of the Butter Bully / Ervin L. Jordan Jr.
  • Avoiding "the appearance of dictating to the Assembly" : Thomas Jefferson and the establishment of the University of Virginia, 1818-1819 / Ellen Hickman
  • From academy to academical village : Thomas Jefferson's architectural designs for public education / Joseph Michael Lasala
  • Elevating Jefferson's high-flying vision for his last Delorme Dome Project at the University of Virginia's Rotunda / Douglas J. Harnsberger
  • The liberty and tyranny of Jefferson's academical village / Maurie D. McInnis
  • Medical education in the nineteenth century : Jefferson and Flexner revisited / Robert S. Gibson
  • "At all times his chosen companions" : some notes on what books meant to Thomas Jefferson / Jurretta Jordan Heckscher
  • Forming the body of a library based upon the "illimitable freedom of the human mind" / Endrina Tay
  • Reading law in the early republic : legal education in the age of Jefferson / James P. Ambuske and Randall Flaherty
  • God and man at the University of Virginia / Cameron Addis
  • "The powers of debate should be sedulously cultivated" : the importance of eloquence in early American education and the University of Virginia / Carolyn Eastman
  • From "ancients and axioms" to "every branch of science" : Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of liberal education / Johann N. Neem
  • Final thoughts: The university survives.

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