Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Resea

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The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that

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The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tens