R Eric Platt: 2 books
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesizes that the identity and mission of southern Jesuit colleges and universities...
Educating the Sons of Sugar
Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite
The education of individual planter classes—cotton, tobacco, sugar—is rarely treated in works of southern history. Of the existing...