Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University

by Neil J. Smelser

These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism--in particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260961
• ISBN13: 9780520260962
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"