The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America

The Resource The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America

Label

The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America

Title remainder

the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America

Statement of responsibility

Sheldon Rothblatt

Title variation

The Modern University & its Discontents

Language

eng

Summary

This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. The voyages connect nineteenth- and twentieth-century university history, mainly in Britain and the United States but with side excursions to continental Europe. Among the many important topics discussed are the history of student communities in Oxford and Cambridge, the growth of a modern examinations culture, university architecture and the use of space in connection with educational ideals, urbanism and universities, and the competition of states, markets and academic guilds for the control of universities and the right to define the missions of university professors

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

378.41

Index

index present

LC call number

LA636

LC item number

.R67 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Context

Context of The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by University of Liverpool. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

Context

Work of