New lights in the valley : the emergence of UAB / Tennant S. McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Alabama at Birmingham--History.

University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 546 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Overture: the spirit of the Dutchman

Forces of a thousand years

Unknowing relationships, 1936-44

Conception, 1944-50

Gestation, 1950-62

Stage one delivery, 1962-65

Stage two delivery, 1965-69

Volker's vigorous youth, 1969-76

Reach for maturity: the Hill years, 1977-86

Reach for maturity: the McCallum years, 1987-93

Reach for maturity: the Bennett years, 1993-96

Coda: prospect.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-493) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8026-4

OCLC:

183296341