Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite /

Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite / / Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper.

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Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Schaeper, Thomas J.,
Schaeper, Kathleen,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Chapter 1 RHODES, SOUTH AFRICA, AND OXFORD
  • Chapter 2 GETTING STARTED
  • Chapter 3 THE SETTING
  • Chapter 4 YANKS AND BRITS
  • Chapter 5 THE SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
  • Chapter 6 PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES
  • Chapter 7 INTERWAR YEARS Society and Study
  • Chapter 8 INTERWAR YEARS Fighting the World’s Fight
  • Chapter 9 POSTWAR PROBLEMS AND ADJUSTMENTS
  • Chapter 10 THE COLD WAR AND THE SILENT GENERATION
  • Chapter 11 BILL CLINTON AND FRIENDS
  • Chapter 12 NEW VOICES, NEW FACES I Blacks and Other Minorities
  • Chapter 13 NEW VOICES, NEW FACES II Women, Gays, and Lesbians
  • Chapter 14 CAREERS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Chapter 15 THE OXFORD FACTOR
  • Chapter 16 THE RHODES AHEAD
  • APPENDIX: U.S. Rhodes Scholars, 1904-2006
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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