1st Edition
Student Politics in America A Historical Analysis
Edited By Philip G. Altbach
Copyright 1997
292 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery movement; they rebelled against military service in the Civil War; they staged demonstrations during the Depression; and they were vocal during the 1960s. While activism has subsided somewhat in the past three decades, students continue to be... Read more
One: Introduction; Two: The Stirrings of Student Activism: 1900-1930; Three: The Thirties: A Movement Comes of Age; Four: The Postwar Years: Liberal Currents Amidst Apathy; Five: Radicals and Others in the Fifties: In and Out of the Wilderness; Six: The Revival of Student Activism: The Late Fifties; Seven: Continuity and Change: The New Left in the Context of American Student Activism
Biography
Philip G. Altbach
