Alma Mater
Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s
2nd Edition
Published on 30. October 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-0-87023-869-7 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard--Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors--Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.
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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87023-869-7 (9780870238697)
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Person
HELEN LEFKOWITZ HOROWITZ is professor of history and American studies at Smith College. Her books include Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present; Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880's to 1917; and The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas.