Prep school cowboys : ranch schools in the American West /

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"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education.""--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper:...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bingmann, Melissa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Preparatory schools > West (U.S.) > History.
Private schools > West (U.S.) > History.
Education > Social aspects > West (U.S.) > History.
Ranch life > West (U.S.)
Ranchers > West (U.S.)
Cowboys > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
Cowboys > Social life and customs
Education > Social aspects
Manners and customs
Preparatory schools
Private schools
Ranch life
Ranchers
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
West United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Men-in-the-Making in the American West; 1: The Problem of the Rich Man's Son; 2: Private School Education in the West; 3: Constructing the West; 4: The West as Moral Space: Character, Citizenship, and Masculinity; 5: Ranch School Families; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.

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