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A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia´s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864
Robert McCaughey
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Description for A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia´s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864
Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 35 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JNMN; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey ... Read more
In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231166881
SKU
V9780231166881
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About Robert McCaughey
Robert McCaughey is professor of history and Janet H. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College, where he has also served as dean of the faculty. He has written extensively on the history of American cultural institutions and the American professoriate, including his books Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004 ... Read more
Reviews for A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia´s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864
Robert McCaughey's history of the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science is an exemplary study of a largely independent but always dependent unit of the university. Begun in 1864 as the School of Mines, engineering at Columbia oscillated from a pioneer leader of its field to near irrelevance and back to national distinction. McCaughey relates these vicissitudes with candor ... Read more