John Charles Chasteen
John Charles Chasteen is a cultural historian of Latin America, active at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States .... Selected works * ''Americanos: The Struggle for Latin American Independence''. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2008. * ''National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance''. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. * (Co-Editor with James Wood) ''Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations'' Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004. * (Co-Editor with Sara Castro Klarén) ''Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America''. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003. * '' Born i ...
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University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The unive ...
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