New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

by Tennant McWilliams
New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB

by Tennant McWilliams

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Overview

A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s.

While the economy and culture of the post—World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches to social change), one of the most important components of urban life, the university, emerged as both a creator and a reflector of such modernization.

This is the case with Birmingham and its youthful institution of higher learning, the University of Alabama at Birmingham. From its early days as a struggling offshoot of the capstone campus in Tuscaloosa, UAB’s journey to its current status as a major university has been a bumpy but interesting one. Tennant McWilliams, a longtime UAB history professor, explores the whole range of historical considerations, including UAB’s similarities and connections to trans-Atlantic civic universities; the irony of the shift from Big Steel to Big Medicine in Birmingham; the visionary administrations of Joseph F. Volker and others; and the evolving decision to make non-medical life at UAB less of a commuter experience and more of a traditional campus experience. 

McWilliams does not palliate the missteps and disputes that have, from time to time, impeded the institution’s progress. But he explains why, despite various hurdles and distractions, UAB has risen to be Alabama’s largest employer and can rightly boast that its complex of health care services, especially organ transplantation and neuroscience, as well as such fields as philosophy and psychology, are among the best in the nation.


 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817380267
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 552
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Tennant S. McWilliams is Professor of History and Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UAB, a native Alabamian, and author of The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877? and Hannis Taylor: The New Southerner as American.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface 000 Overture: The Spirit of the Dutchman 000 1. Forces of a Thousand Years 000 2. Unknowing Relationships, 193644 000 3. Conception, 194450 000 4. Gestation, 195062 000 5. Stage One Delivery, 196265 000 6. Stage Two Delivery, 196569 000 7. Volker's Vigorous Youth, 196976 000 8. Reach for Maturity: The Hill Years, 197786 000 9. Reach for Maturity: The McCallum Years, 198793 000 10. Reach for Maturity: The Bennett Years, 199396 000 Coda: Prospect 000 Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Brief Essay on Sources 000 Index 000
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