Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Resea

This book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manife

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of t

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that

The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tens