Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: How to Know the World? 1
4. 1 Professor Lough’s Big Idea 15
5. 2 The University Flexes Its Muscles 40
6. 3 A Shipboard Education 63
7. 4 Scandal and the Press 93
8. 5 America’s Classroom 116
9. 6 Students of Empire 137
10. 7 Other Ways of Knowing 167
11. 8 Assessing the Experiment 186
12. 9 Thinking with Failure 210
13. Acknowledgments 225
14. Appendix: Chasing Constantine Raises 229
15. Archival Information 235
16. Notes 237
17. Index 305