“…Through national and local examination of the full range of cultural forms (film, operas, dance, other stage arts, music, fine arts, literature, and even architecture), Clark argues against characterizing this decade as one of chaos and destruction. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Chuck Missler's tour of the Holy Land -- Part I:1621-1948 -- One book of the whole Bible -- This new English Israel -- The English madness -- The Americanising effect -- A great idea -- The wrong kind of Jew -- Part II: 1948-2006 -- Apocalypse loud -- A disciplined, charging army -- Watchmen for Israel -- Two shining cities on a hill -- Talking Texan…”
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“…Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. …”
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