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OverviewRanch 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 schools that gave pampered boys from the urban centers of the Atlantic Seaboard and Great Lakes region the opportunity to grow into gentlemen cowboys ready to take the reins of power in family businesses and government. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Melissa BingmannPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780826355430ISBN 10: 0826355439 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 August 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAn 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 In this fascinating study of a little-known phenomenon, Melissa Bingmann . . . presents a picture of the emergence and heyday of the ranch schools. -- Curled Up With a Good Book 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 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 Author InformationMelissa Bingmann is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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