Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920

by Michael Dennis

Lessons in Progress provides a detailed look at how progressivism transformed higher education in the New South. Orchestrated by an alliance of northern philanthropists and southern intellectuals, modernizing universities focused on practical, utilitarian education aimed at reinvigorating the South through technological advancement. They also offered an institutional vehicle by which a new, urban middle class could impose order on a society in flux...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026179
• ISBN13: 9780252026171
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"