TY - BOOK ID - 101499627 TI - Allies and rivals : German-American exchange and the rise of the modern research university PY - 2021 SN - 9780226341811 022634181X 9780226341958 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - 378.18 <73> KW - 378.4 <73> KW - 378.18 <43> KW - 378.4 <43> KW - 378.4 <73> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - 378.18 <43> Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 KW - Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 KW - 378.18 <73> Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - Universiteiten--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 KW - Higher education KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - United States KW - Germany KW - United States of America KW - Universities and colleges KW - Education, Higher UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101499627 AB - "During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center of higher education excellence? And what does that story reveal about who will lead in the twenty-first century? Allies and Rivals is the first history of the ascent of American higher education told through the lens of German-American exchange. In a series of compelling portraits of such leaders as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Martha Carey Thomas, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Emily J. Levine shows how academic innovators on both sides of the Atlantic competed and collaborated to shape the research university. Even as nations sought world dominance through scholarship, universities retained values apart from politics and economics. Open borders enabled Americans to unite the English college and German PhD to create the modern research university, a hybrid replicated the world over. In a captivating narrative spanning one hundred years Levine upends notions of the university as a timeless ideal, restoring universities to their rightful place in history. In so doing she reveals that innovation in the twentieth century was rooted in international cooperation-a crucial lesson that bears remembering today"-- ER -