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The Modern University and Its Discontents: The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America
Contributor(s): Rothblatt, Sheldon (Author)

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 ISBN: 052102501X     ISBN-13: 9780521025010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $62.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2006
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Annotation: 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 occurring 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | History
- Education | Higher
- History
Dewey: 378.41
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.53 lbs) 476 pages
 
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This is a study of how the internal culture of British and American universities has been shaped over the course of two centuries in relation to external factors such as government, the economy, society and culture. John Henry Newman's classic work, The Idea of a University provides entry and exit points for this study of the modern university. This series of explorations highlights on-going paradoxes and dilemmas in the history of universities as they moved from the edge of society to the center of modern democratic states and market economies.
 
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