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1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Papers derived from a conference held at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. in 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Bench talk / Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion -- Teaching student activism / Eileen Eagan -- Debating Tlatelolco : thirty years of public debates about the Mexican student movement of 1968 / Vania Markarian -- Between Berlin and Berkeley, Frankfurt and San Francisco : the student movements of the 1960s in transatlantic perspective / Martin Klimke -- Unionizing for a more democratic and responsive university / Anita Seth -- What is a university? : anti-union campaigns in academia / Kimberly Phillips-Fein -- Where have all the politics gone? : a graduate student's reflections / John McMillian -- Glass tower : half full or half empty? / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Toxic torts : historians in the courtroom / David Rosner -- Most craven abdication of democratic principles : on the U.S. attack on Iraq / Glenda Gilmore -- Forging activist alliances : identity, identification, and position / Drucilla Cornell and Kitty Krupat -- Calling all liberals : connecting feminist theory, activism, and history / Jennifer Manion -- Producing for use and teaching the whole student : can pedagogy be a form of activism? / Kathleen M. Brown and Tracey M. Weis -- Teaching across the color line : a warning about identity politics in the classroom / Jim Downs -- 2.5 cheers for bridging the gap between activism and the academy ; or, stay and fight : to which is added an account of radical scholar-activist in the wake of the Iraq war / Jesse Lemisch. |
| Summary |
A history of activism on campus since the 1960s and an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Historians -- Political activity -- United States -- Congresses.
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Historians -- Political activity. |
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United States. |
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Historians. |
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects. |
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Learning and scholarship. |
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Student movements -- United States -- Congresses.
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Student movements. |
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Social movements -- United States -- Congresses.
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Social movements. |
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Political activists -- United States -- Congresses.
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Political activists. |
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Historians -- Political activity -- Congresses.
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
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Student movements -- Congresses.
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Social movements -- Congresses.
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Political activists -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Downs, Jim, 1973-
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Manion, Jen, 1974-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Taking back the academy!. New York : Routledge, 2004 041594810X 0415948118 (DLC) 2004014171 (OCoLC)55738711 |
| ISBN |
0203339584 (electronic book) |
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9780203339589 (electronic book) |
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0415948118 (Paper) |
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041594810X (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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