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Campus Life

Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present

"Based on subtle, imaginative readings of autobiographies, memoirs, fiction and secondary sources, [Campus Life] tells the story of the changing mentalities of American undergraduates over two centuries."—Michael Moffatt, New York Times Book Review

348 pages | 103 halftones | 6.10 x 9.20 | © 1988

Culture Studies

Education: Higher Education, History of Education

History: American History

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Worlds That Undergraduates Make
2. College Men: The War between Students and Faculty
3. Outsiders: The Loyal Opposition
4. Rebels: The Idol Breakers
5. The Sideshows and the Circus
6. The Organized
7. Jacobins and Other Rebels
8. Meatballs and Other Outsiders
9. College Women and Coeds
10. The 1960s
11. The Nerds Take Revenge
12. The New Outsiders, College Men and Women, and Rebels Today
Coda
Notes
Index

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