id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14768 Lehmann, Stephen The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Book Review) 1992-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 897 55 58 The essays are of two kinds: (1) case studies of particular issues in specific countries (e.g., the Historiker- streit among West German scholars con- cerning the Nazi era; the impact of nineteenth-century student activism on the formation of Swedish research univer- sities; the role of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Develop- ment in setting research agendas); and (2) concise general surveys of larger themes (e.g., the exceptionalism of American higher education; the growing fragmen- tation of research, teaching and study; the dominance of scientific discourse in . It contains eighteen essays by an international set of scholars focus- ing on the creation of expert knowl- edge through university research and on the social and economic role of that knowledge in the United States and European countries. cache/crl-14768.pdf txt/crl-14768.txt