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The Old Boys : The Decline and Rise of the Public School
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ISBN: 0300213131 9780300213133 9780300189926 0300189923 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner's vibrant history of Great Britain's public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to the modern day, offers a fresh reappraisal of the controversial educational system. Turner argues that public schools are, in fact, good for the nation and are presently enjoying their true "Golden Age," countering the long-held belief that these institutions achieved their greatest glory during Great Britain's Victorian Era. Turner's engrossing and enlightening work is rife with colorful stories of schoolboy revolts, eccentric heads, shocking corruption, and financial collapse. His thoughtful appreciation of these learning establishments follows the progression of public schools from their sometimes brutal and inglorious pasts through their present incarnations as vital contributors to the economic, scientific, and political future of the country.


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Prep school cowboys : ranch schools in the American West
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ISBN: 9780826355447 0826355447 9780826355430 0826355439 Year: 2015 Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,

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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 1920's

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