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Book SynopsisS. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000
Trade ReviewThe close reading required by these essays is well worth the time. -- Marcia G. Synnott Journal of American History 2007
Table of ContentsJohn Guillory, "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"; Roger L. Geiger, "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"; Joan Shelley Rubin, "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers"; Martin Jay, "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"; James T. Kloppenberg, "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"; Bruce Kuklick, "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"; John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"; Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"; Rosalind Rosenberg, "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"; Leila Zenderland, "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"; David C. Engerman, "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"; Andrew E. Barshay, "What is Japan to Us"?; Rolena Adorno, "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000".
