Prep School Cowboys (eBook)

Ranch Schools in the American West

Melissa Bingmann (Autor)

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2015
264 Seiten
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5544-7 (ISBN)

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“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

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Ranch 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Albuquerque Ranch School, New Mexico • and Desert Willow Ranch School, Arizona • Arizona Desert School (1927) • Arizona Sunshine School • Deep Springs Preparatory, California • Education • Evans School, Arizona • Foxboro Ranch School, Arizona (1927) • Fresnal Ranch School, Arizona • Green Fields Preparatory, Arizona • Hacienda del Sol, Arizona (1929) • Henry John Heinz II • Jokake School, Arizona • Judson School for Boys, Arizona (1928) • Los Alamos Ranch School, New Mexico • Masculinity • M Bar V Ranch School, Arizona • Mesa Ranch School, Arizona • Montezuma Mountain School, California • Orme School, Arizona (1929) • Palo Verde Ranch School for Boys, Arizona (1929) • Remuda Ranch School, Arizona • Southern Arizona Desert School for Boys, Arizona • Thacher School, California • Valley Ranch School, Wyoming
• ISBN-10: 0-8263-5544-7 / 0826355447
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-5544-7 / 9780826355447