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Seeing the World : How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era /

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitanU. S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stevens, Mitchell L. (Author), Shami, Seteney (Author), Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Seeing through the Academy; Chapter 1: The World in US Universities; Chapter 2: What Is Area Studies?; Chapter 3: Departments and Not-Departments; Chapter 4: Stone Soup; Chapter 5: Numbers and Languages; Chapter 6: US Universities in the World; Appendix: Methods and Data; Notes; Index.