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  • av Steven Conn
    367,-

    "There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that it doesn't mean anything. In fact, he maintains, rural America--so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind--has been shaped by the same major forces as the rest of the country since at least the end of the Civil War: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Conn calls for us to dispense with the fantasies and visions that are often imposed on rural America, in the hopes of more productively addressing the real challenges facing all of America"--

  • - The Sad History of American Business Schools
    av Steven Conn
    315 - 421,-

    Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of...

  • - Living with the Presence of the Past
    av Steven Conn
    332,-

    Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity.

  • - Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
    av Steven Conn
    428,-

  • av Steven Conn
    402,-

    Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.

  • av Steven Conn
    332,-

    In this broadly conceived study Steven Conn examines the development of American museums across the twentieth century with a historian's attention and a critic's eye. He focuses on an array of museum types and asks illuminating questions about the relationship between museums and American cultural life.

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