Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Mercer Illustrated: The Places, People, and Experiences of a Uniquely Impactful University. 208 pp. 2024:11 (Mercer U. Pr., US) <730-971>
ISBN 978-0-88146-938-7 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00

This folio of more than two hundred-fifty photographs with a foreword by President William D. Underwood and accompanying text by Gordon Johnston celebrates Georgia's oldest private university. Since its founding in 1833 in Penfield as Mercer Institute, Mercer University has educated tens of thousands of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, counting among its alumni twelve governors, twenty-five congressional representatives, a U.S. Attorney General, two Rhodes Scholars, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and many physicians, artists, poets, engineers, scientists, ministers, musicians, educators, judges, attorneys, business leaders, nurses, and pharmacists. Mercer University enrolls more than 9,000 students each academic year in twelve colleges and schools on campuses in Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbus, and at centers in Henry and Douglas Counties. Mercer Illustrated highlights the places, people, spirit, and experiences that collectively contribute to Mercer's impact on the world. With sections depicting the university's campuses in Macon, Atlanta, Columbus, and Savannah and the academic, athletic, arts, service, and social events that nourish mind and soul and build community in each location, this collection offers a slice of Mercer life from all the areas of the world and the state that the University has come to call home over the last 191 years.

Trent, John, The University of Nevada, Reno, 1874-2024: 150 Years of Inspiring Excellence. 240 pp. 2024:10 (U. Nevada Pr., US) <730-973>
ISBN 978-1-64779-169-8 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95

With an uncertain beginning in the sparsely populated remote northern Nevada town of Elko, a preparatory school opened its doors in October 1874 through the Morrill Act that sought to establish land-grant universities across the nation. Seven students began their higher education experience with dreams of a better future, but they probably could not have predicted that their alma mater would one day become the University of Nevada, Reno, a nationally classified Carnegie R1 "Very High Research" institution. As both the University's student body and the state's population grew, the campus was transferred to Reno in 1885-86 as an effort to secure the fledgling institution's prospects for survival. Many of the initial class of thirty-five students resided in Morrill Hall, the only building on campus, where they also received instruction and ate their meals. As the University enhanced its academic offerings, enrollment grew to more than 1,000 students by the turn of the century. A strong belief that the University must always be changing and evolving to meet the needs of its students and answer the challenges of a particular era became the guiding forces behind the administration's decision-making. With an increasingly diverse student body and one of the most productive academic faculties in the country, the little school on the hill expanded during its first 100 years to become a leading public university in the western United States. Today, the University continues to achieve institutional benchmarks, including a record 5,000 graduates during the 2019-20 academic year. It is exactly this kind of student success that has always been at the heart of the Wolf Pack Family's mission to help students find the path that is right for them, and beckon others to share in their journey. The 150th anniversary book is published in honor of this milestone and highlights numerous parts of the University's history, showcasing why the University of Nevada, Reno has truly been a catalyst for success and change throughout the state's story.

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Ullmann, Hans-Peter, Die Universitaet zu Koeln im Nationalsozialismus: Wege einer staedtischen Hochschulgruendung zwischen spaeter Weimarer Republik und frueher Bundesrepublik. 464 S. 2024:7 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <730-974>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5767-9 hard ¥8,003.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Als staedtische Gruendung war die Universitaet zu Koeln ein Sonderfall unter den deutschen Hochschulen. Was folgte daraus fuer ihre Entwicklung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus? Die Universitaet zu Koeln nahm im deutschen Hochschulsystem eine Sonderstellung ein. Sie zaehlte zu den neuen Grossstadtuniversitaeten, hob sich vor allem aber als von der Stadt Koeln 1919 gegruendete, von dieser getragene und finanzierte akademische Institution von anderen Hochschulen ab. Hans-Peter Ullmann untersucht, wie diese Besonderheiten zunaechst den Weg der Universitaet in die nationalsozialistische Diktatur beguenstigt, dann ihre Nazifizierung sowohl vorangetrieben als auch begrenzt und schliesslich den Schritt in die Demokratie erschwert haben. Es zeigt einerseits, dass die Koelner Universitaet als Kind des ≫Weimarer Systems≪ und im katholischen Rheinland gelegen vom NS-Staat nicht gut gelitten war, weshalb ihre Schliessung mehrfach zur Diskussion stand. Andererseits wird deutlich, dass viele Koelner Professoren und eine Mehrheit der Studierenden die Weimarer Republik abgelehnt, sich nach 1933 in unterschiedlichem Grad auf den Nationalsozialismus eingelassen sowie der Vertreibung juedischer und politisch missliebiger Hochschulangehoeriger nicht widersprochen haben. So fuegte sich die Universitaet zu Koeln in das Regime ein und trug dieses von Anfang bis Ende mit, nicht zuletzt im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Diese Kollaboration verdraengte die Hochschule in den Jahren des Wiederaufbaus und der Entnazifizierung nach 1945.

Otheguy, Raquel Alicia, Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. (Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom Struggles) 272 pp. 2025:1 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-747>
ISBN 978-1-68340-476-7 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-68340-493-4 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Examining the educational legacy of Afro-Cuban teachers and activists In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba. Tracing the emergence of a Black Cuban educational tradition whose hallmarks were at the forefront of transatlantic educational currents, Otheguy examines how this movement pushed the island's public school system to be more accessible to children and adults of all races, genders, and classes. Otheguy describes Afro-Cuban education before public schools were officially desegregated in 1894, from the maestras amigas-Black and mulatto women who taught in their homes-to teachers in the schools of mutual-aid societies for people of color. In the ways that African descendants interacted with the Spanish colonial school system and its authorities, and in the separate schools they created, they were resisting the hardening racial boundaries that characterized Cuban life and developing alternative visions of possible societies, nations, and futures. Otheguy demonstrates that Black Cubans pioneered the region's most progressive innovations in education and influenced the trajectory of public school systems in their nation and the broader Americas. A volume in the series Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom Struggles, edited by Lillian Guerra, Devyn Spence Benson, April Mayes, and Solsiree del Moral Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities