Burton J Bledstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burton J Bledstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burton J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bledstein |
| SIGNATURE | BLEDSTEIN B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wesleyan University, 1910-1970: Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America
Professional historians of American higher educational institutions confront a challenge. First, they reach out to the loyal alumni whose appetite for sentiment require storytelling about presidents, professors, departments, programs and prizes, endowment campaigns, and extracurricular activities specifically athletics. Second, through research and a factual record, they bring critical insight to the educational enterprise of an institution in th…
The Creative Society: And the Price Americans Paid for It
A distinguished historian of business institutions in twentieth-century America, Louis Galambos focuses on how, since 1890, education and the professions shaped the modern state for an upwardly mobile middle class. The Creative Society is written in the institutional tradition of Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Samuel L. Hayes, and Robert H. Wiebe. Joseph Schumpeter's “creative destruction” plays an informing role (Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1…
A Nation of Realtors(R): A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
George Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis's 1922 satirical portrait of the twentieth-century urban real estate salesman, created a distrustful public image of the manipulative, profit-centered, pious civic huckster. Buyer beware of the damage done by the fast-buck broker: “shark,” “speculator,” or “curbstone” in the slang of the trade. Smart and flip, Babbitt knew the cash value of boosting his occupational repute by comparing his knowledge and practices to…
Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance Kenneth S. Sacks
Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance
Book Review| August 01 2004 Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (3): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.3.91 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Shar…
The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
Building on the idea that cultural formations as well as economic conditions “make” class, this volume's essays focus less on occupations than on the material world of consumption, cultural institutions, and leisure time. The introduction by the co-editor Burton J. Bledstein and finely textured essays by two senior scholars—Joyce Appleby and Bruce Laurie— set the stage for the history of middle-class formation in the early nineteenth century. But…
Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America
Journal Article Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America. By Allan S. Horlick. (Leiden: Brill, 1994. x, 264 pp. $77.25, ISBN 90-04-10054-7.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1238–1239, https:/…
Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education
The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promo…
The "True Professional Ideal" in America: A History
Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American professionalism arose from the proliferation of urban positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The True Professional Ideal in America argues that the ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a professional and broader changes in…
Terminology Counts, "Terman" Ly Stupid
USE OF THESE MATERIALS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE-William Ayers proposes this truth in labeling for standardized tests in To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (1993). Observing that tests are a sorting machine for children into predictable winners and losers, Ayers concludes that the main business (the big money) of the enterprise is to validate the culturally privileged, to assume that a narrow band of analytic skills is what counts as …
Professionalism, Higher Education, and American Culture: Burton J. Bledstein's The Culture of Professionalism
Burton Bledstein classed his book The Culture of Professionalism with the work of the giants in American academik history. He suggested that his theory of the culture of professionalism ranked in significance with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, Charles A. Beard's industrialization theories, and Perry Miller's analysis of Puritanism. Bledstein's fresh historical perspective on higher education and his skepticism regarding professional…
Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins
The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present
The Professions in American History
Journal Article The Professions in American History. Ed. by Nathan O. Hatch. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. xiii + 220 pp. $21.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 577–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908005 Published: 01 September 1989
Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Humanistic Pieties, Historical Counterpieties
The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940
Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984
Journal Article Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884–1984. By Raymond Seidelman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. xxi + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $36.50; paper, $10.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, Ma…
Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic
Journal Article Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic. By Frank K. Kelly. (New York: Free Press, 1981. xiii + 722 pp. Notes and index. $19.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903590 Published: 01 …
The Way We Think: The New Spencerians
The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America
Journal Article The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. By Burton J. Bledstein. New York: Norton and A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919. By Steven J. Diner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Henrika Kuklick Henrika Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980
Journal Article A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880–1980. By Bruce Sinclair. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. xii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages …
The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism
Journal Article The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism. By David DeLeon. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. xiii + 242 pp. Illustrations, notes, general reference bibliography, and index. $14.00.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, M…
Universities as Legitimating Agencies
Community and Social Change in America . Thomas Bender
The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present
Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984
Journal Article Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884–1984. By Raymond Seidelman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. xxi + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $36.50; paper, $10.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, Ma…
The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
Building on the idea that cultural formations as well as economic conditions “make” class, this volume's essays focus less on occupations than on the material world of consumption, cultural institutions, and leisure time. The introduction by the co-editor Burton J. Bledstein and finely textured essays by two senior scholars—Joyce Appleby and Bruce Laurie— set the stage for the history of middle-class formation in the early nineteenth century. But…
Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education
The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promo…
Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins
Noah Porter versus William Graham Sumner
In January 1879 William Graham Sumner, Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale, assigned as a textbook the popular work by Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology. In a letter to the trustees in June 1880, the president of the college, Noah Porter, objected to the use of the volume. He suggested that Spencer's atheistic materialism would intellectually, morally and religiously harm immature students and bring notoriety to be the institu…
The Professions in American History
Journal Article The Professions in American History. Ed. by Nathan O. Hatch. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. xiii + 220 pp. $21.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 577–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908005 Published: 01 September 1989
Wesleyan University, 1910-1970: Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America
Professional historians of American higher educational institutions confront a challenge. First, they reach out to the loyal alumni whose appetite for sentiment require storytelling about presidents, professors, departments, programs and prizes, endowment campaigns, and extracurricular activities specifically athletics. Second, through research and a factual record, they bring critical insight to the educational enterprise of an institution in th…
The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940
Noah Porter versus William Graham Sumner
In January 1879 William Graham Sumner, Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale, assigned as a textbook the popular work by Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology. In a letter to the trustees in June 1880, the president of the college, Noah Porter, objected to the use of the volume. He suggested that Spencer's atheistic materialism would intellectually, morally and religiously harm immature students and bring notoriety to be the institu…
The Mystique of Professionalism
Universities as Legitimating Agencies
Community and Social Change in America . Thomas Bender
The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism
Journal Article The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism. By David DeLeon. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. xiii + 242 pp. Illustrations, notes, general reference bibliography, and index. $14.00.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, M…
The Way We Think: The New Spencerians
The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America
Journal Article The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. By Burton J. Bledstein. New York: Norton and A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919. By Steven J. Diner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Get access Henrika Kuklick Henrika Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980
Journal Article A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880–1980. By Bruce Sinclair. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. xii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages …
Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic
Journal Article Court of Reason: Robert Hutchins and the Fund for the Republic. By Frank K. Kelly. (New York: Free Press, 1981. xiii + 722 pp. Notes and index. $19.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903590 Published: 01 …
Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884-1984
Journal Article Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis, 1884–1984. By Raymond Seidelman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. xxi + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $36.50; paper, $10.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, Ma…
Humanistic Pieties, Historical Counterpieties
The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940
Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present
The Professions in American History
Journal Article The Professions in American History. Ed. by Nathan O. Hatch. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. xiii + 220 pp. $21.95.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 577–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908005 Published: 01 September 1989
The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present
Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins
Professionalism, Higher Education, and American Culture: Burton J. Bledstein's The Culture of Professionalism
Burton Bledstein classed his book The Culture of Professionalism with the work of the giants in American academik history. He suggested that his theory of the culture of professionalism ranked in significance with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, Charles A. Beard's industrialization theories, and Perry Miller's analysis of Puritanism. Bledstein's fresh historical perspective on higher education and his skepticism regarding professional…
Terminology Counts, "Terman" Ly Stupid
USE OF THESE MATERIALS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE-William Ayers proposes this truth in labeling for standardized tests in To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (1993). Observing that tests are a sorting machine for children into predictable winners and losers, Ayers concludes that the main business (the big money) of the enterprise is to validate the culturally privileged, to assume that a narrow band of analytic skills is what counts as …
Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America
Journal Article Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America. By Allan S. Horlick. (Leiden: Brill, 1994. x, 264 pp. $77.25, ISBN 90-04-10054-7.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1238–1239, https:/…
Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education
The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promo…
The "True Professional Ideal" in America: A History
Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American professionalism arose from the proliferation of urban positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The True Professional Ideal in America argues that the ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a professional and broader changes in…
The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
Building on the idea that cultural formations as well as economic conditions “make” class, this volume's essays focus less on occupations than on the material world of consumption, cultural institutions, and leisure time. The introduction by the co-editor Burton J. Bledstein and finely textured essays by two senior scholars—Joyce Appleby and Bruce Laurie— set the stage for the history of middle-class formation in the early nineteenth century. But…
Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance Kenneth S. Sacks
Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance
Book Review| August 01 2004 Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (3): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.3.91 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Shar…
A Nation of Realtors(R): A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
George Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis's 1922 satirical portrait of the twentieth-century urban real estate salesman, created a distrustful public image of the manipulative, profit-centered, pious civic huckster. Buyer beware of the damage done by the fast-buck broker: “shark,” “speculator,” or “curbstone” in the slang of the trade. Smart and flip, Babbitt knew the cash value of boosting his occupational repute by comparing his knowledge and practices to…
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