{"product_id":"exchange-of-ideas-9780226828497","title":"Exchange of Ideas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.   Exchange of Ideaslaunches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. American scholars might once have imagined that higher education could sit beyond the sphere of market activitythat intellectual exchange could transcend vulgar consumerismbut already by the end of the eighteenth century, they saw how ideas could be factored into the nation's balance of trade. Moreover, they concluded that it was the function of colleges to oversee the complex process whereby knowledge could be priced and purchased. The history of capitalism and the history of higher education, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwinedwhich raises a host of important and strikingly urgent questions. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Should American colleges and universities serve the public good? It all depends on what we mean by 'the public,'of course, and what we imagine would be 'good' for it. Adam Nelson has produced the first full history of how Americans established and funded higher education, and--especially--of how they deliberated its fundamental purposes. From now on, anyone who wants understand that debate--or to enter into it themselves--will have to consult this groundbreaking book.\" -- Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\"This book and its companion, \u003ci\u003eCapital of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, represent a monumental achievement. They will fundamentally alter how we understand virtually every feature of US higher education during more than a century of its history. Nelson's work will cause a major splash and encourage readers to radically alter their views of the educational landscape before the Civil War. With these books, the history of American colleges and universities will never again look the same.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Andrew Jewett, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003e“In this remarkable book, Adam Nelson offers a dazzling reinterpretation of the origins of American higher education through the lens of political economy. He carefully reconstructs how material constraints, political maneuvers, and social theory interacted to produce our decentralized, diverse, market-driven ‘system’ of higher education. In doing so, Nelson demonstrates that the tensions that seem to define contemporary higher education, such as the commodification of knowledge and globalization, in fact have long roots reaching back to the beginning of the nation.” \u003cbr\u003e   -- Julie A. Reuben, Harvard Graduate School of Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: From Mercantilism to Republicanism\u003cbr\u003e Academic Mercantilism\u003cbr\u003e 1. “Hearts and Purses”\u003cbr\u003e 2. “Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences”\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Bethesda College” and “Hampshire College”\u003cbr\u003e A Republic of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 4. “A Center of Intelligence”\u003cbr\u003e 5. “The University of the State of Pennsylvania”\u003cbr\u003e 6. “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: From Republicanism to Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e Intellectual Independence\u003cbr\u003e 7. “Educated in His Own Country”\u003cbr\u003e 8. “Knowledge . . . Has Been the Least of Our Importations”\u003cbr\u003e 9. “An Equal Diffusion of Literature”\u003cbr\u003e The Idea of a (National) University\u003cbr\u003e 10. “Here, the Human Mind Is in a State of Fermentation”\u003cbr\u003e 11. “The Rights and Duties of Neutral States”\u003cbr\u003e 12. “To Supersede the Necessity of Sending the Youth of This Country Abroad”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III: From Nationalism to Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e Imported Ideas . . . Imported Infidelity\u003cbr\u003e 13. \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. “All the Wisdom of the World”\u003cbr\u003e 15. “University of North America”\u003cbr\u003e A “Liberal” Education?\u003cbr\u003e 16. “Of the Profits of the Man of Science”\u003cbr\u003e 17. “The State Offers Very Inconsiderable Motives for the Acquisition of Knowledge”\u003cbr\u003e 18. “A Utopian Dream”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400135811415,"sku":"9780226828497","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828497.jpg?v=1730469845","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exchange-of-ideas-9780226828497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}