Author: BURKE, COLIN
Title: American Collegiate Populations a Test of the Traditional View
Description: New York: NYU Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0814710387. New York University Series in Education and Socialization in Series; Tables; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1; ix,373 pages; Hard cover has red cloth covers with white lettering on spine. Stitched binding. Light rubbing, bumping to covers. DJ has light rubbing, bumping, scuffing; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Notes; 2 appendices; index. " American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data put together in an original and interpretive manner. The author offers a devastating critique of the two reference works which until now have commanded scholars' attention. Burke examines Bailey Burritt's Professional Distribution of College and University Undergraduates (1912) noting that Burritt's categories oversimplify the data of the 37 institutions he studies. Donald G. Tewksbury's American Colleges and Universities Before the Civil War (1932) , the author explains, presents a skewed interpretation of collegiate decline in the antebellum period. Using a far larger data base and capitalizing on the advances in quantitative history made in the last decade, Burke adopts appropriate analytic categories for college students and their subsequent careers. Amierican Collegiate Populations thus becomes the referent work to replace Burritt and Tewksbury and will likely have an equal longevity in print. ". Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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