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New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB
Tennant S. McWilliams
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Description for New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB
Hardcover. From its early days as a struggling offshoot of the capstone campus in Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama's (UAB) journey to its status as a major medical complex and urban research university has been a bumpy but interesting one. This work explains why, despite various hurdles and distractions, UAB has arisen to be Alabama's largest employer. Num Pages: 568 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; HBT; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1057.
While the economy and culture of the post - World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches to social change), one of the most important components of urban life, the university, emerged as both a creator and a reflector of such modernization. This is the case with Birmingham and its 50-year-old institution of higher learning - the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). From its early days as a struggling offshoot of the capstone campus in Tuscaloosa, UAB's journey to its ... Read more
While the economy and culture of the post - World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches to social change), one of the most important components of urban life, the university, emerged as both a creator and a reflector of such modernization. This is the case with Birmingham and its 50-year-old institution of higher learning - the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). From its early days as a struggling offshoot of the capstone campus in Tuscaloosa, UAB's journey to its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817315467
SKU
V9780817315467
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About Tennant S. McWilliams
Tennant S. McWilliams is Professor of History and Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UAB, a native Alabamian, and author of The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877-1950 and Hannis Taylor: The New Southerner as American.
Reviews for New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB
Tennant McWilliams has written a superb account of UAB's history.... The research is prodigious, the interpretations sustainable. This book makes a substantial contribution to the literature of higher education and a huge contribution to the history of The University of Alabama, indeed the history of this state and of its 'Magic City.' - E. Culpepper Clark, author of The Schoolhouse ... Read more