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Prep School Cowboys
Melissa Bingmann
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Ranch schools in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the 1920s and 1930s portrayed the West as embodying the moral attributes believed to be lacking in urban America. Bingmann uses ranch schools as a lens through which to examine citizenship, class, gender, and region during this era. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Ranch schools in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the 1920s and 1930s portrayed that the West embodied the moral attributes believed to be lacking in urban America. Advocates of character education saw the courage and self-reliance of the Old West as the qualities necessary to preserve the nation through the next generation.
Bingmann uses ranch schools, designed to counteract the problems of inherited wealth, as a lens through which to examine citizenship, class, gender, and region during this era while illustrating that these schools, in transmitting such values to American youth, created a network of elite private ... Read more
Ranch schools in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the 1920s and 1930s portrayed that the West embodied the moral attributes believed to be lacking in urban America. Advocates of character education saw the courage and self-reliance of the Old West as the qualities necessary to preserve the nation through the next generation.
Bingmann uses ranch schools, designed to counteract the problems of inherited wealth, as a lens through which to examine citizenship, class, gender, and region during this era while illustrating that these schools, in transmitting such values to American youth, created a network of elite private ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826355430
SKU
V9780826355430
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About Melissa Bingmann
Melissa Bingmann is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, USA.
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