University of Chicago Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations records 1958-1975 (inclusive).

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University of Chicago Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations records 1958-1975 (inclusive).

The Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations records contains meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, publications, research papers, and other material documenting the committee from its founding through the mid-1970s.

14.25 linear feet (26 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7790699

University of Chicago Library

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Fallers, Lloyd Ashton

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Anthropologist. Ph. B., University of Chicago, 1946; A.M., 1949; Ph. D., 1953. Lecturer, Princeton University, 1953. Director, East African Institute of Social Research, 1956. Assistant professor and associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1960. Associate professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, 1960-1964; professor of anthropology, 1964-1970; professor of anthropology and sociology, 1970-1973. Named A.A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor, 1972. ...

Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

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Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

University of Chicago. Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations

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Formally established in 1960, the Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations was a group of faculty from several social sciences departments, all of whom had an interest in the problems of developing countries. In their own departments, many of these faculty members specialized in the study of Asian and African societies. In the committee, these faculty members explored inter-disciplinary approaches to problems shared by new nations. The committee's activities were supported largely thro...