Ball State University: An Interpretive History

by Anthony O. Edmonds and E. Bruce Geelhoed

Book Overview

This is a narrative and interpretive history of a major institution of higher education. In it, the authors want to avoid the pitfalls of too many other "college histories," which are sometimes either painfully detailed encyclopaedic catalogues of "one damn thing after another" or panegyrics praising one damn president or construction project after another. Obviously, they want to tell an interesting story, focusing on the people who inhabited the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253340179
• ISBN13: 9780253340177
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"