Prep School Cowboys - by Melissa Bingmann (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest.
- About the Author: Melissa Bingmann is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University.
- 256 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Book Synopsis
An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education.--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920sReview Quotes
An engaging and well-researched study. . . . Anyone interested in education will find this book an informative and groundbreaking contribution to history of the West and American education.--Mexia Daily News
An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education. This book will be a significant contribution to scholarship on the history of the West, on the culture of masculinity, and on education.--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Bingmann does a fine job of reconstructing the elite cultural disquiet and parental anxieties of the 1920s and '30s that made these schools, for a moment in time, seem both natural and necessary.--Pasatiempo
About the Author
Melissa Bingmann is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University.Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Unm Press
Theme: State & Local, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Format: Hardcover
Author: Melissa Bingmann
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2015
TCIN: 1003466547
UPC: 9780826355430
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-1126
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.1 inches length x 5.9 inches width x 9.1 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.15 pounds
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