A History of the University of Cambridge
Volume 4. 1870–1990
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Part of History of the University of Cambridge
- Author: Christopher N. L. Brooke, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: December 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521343503
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This is the fourth volume of A History of the University of Cambridge and explores the extraordinary growth in size and academic stature of the University between 1870 and 1990. Though the University has made great advances since the 1870s, when it was viewed as a provincial seminary, it is also the home of tradition: a federation of colleges, one over 700 years old, one of the 1970s. This book seeks to penetrate the nature of the colleges and of the federation; and to show the way in which university faculties and departments have come to vie with the colleges for this predominant role. It attempts to unravel a fascinating institutional story of the society of the University and its place in the world. It explores in depth the themes of religion and learning, and of the entry of women into a once male environment. There are portraits of seminal and characteristic figures of the Cambridge scene, and there is a sketch - inevitably selective but wide-ranging - of many disciplines, an extensive study in intellectual and academic history.
Read more- The fourth (and last-numbered) volume in an important series which takes the story of Cambridge University from Victorian times to the present day, describing in detail people and events which are in living memory
- Covers 'controversial' subjects such as the admission of women, funding, the attitudes of successive governments towards university education, etc., and the modern role of Cambridge in the world today
- Christopher Brooke, a medievalist of world renown, now tackles a period in modern history, following his recently-published David Knowles Remembered and his history of Gonville and Caius College (1988)
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This book, and its companion volumes, is of much interest not only to the historian but also to any graduate of Cambridge who is curious about its evolution or who views with concern the current tug of war between the government and the two oldest universities.' Cambridge: The Magazine of the Cambridge Society
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- Date Published: December 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521343503
- length: 678 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 165 x 43 mm
- weight: 1.068kg
- contains: 22 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Prologue
2. The university and the colleges
3. The second Royal Commission and university reform, 1872–1914
4. Religion, 1870–1914
5. Theology
6. The natural sciences
7. Classics, law and history
8. The society
9. Women, 1868–1948
10. The Great War, 1914–19
11. Sir Hugh Anderson, the Asquith Commission and its sequel
12. The University Library
13. The dons' religion in twentieth-century Cambridge
14. Religion and learning: C. H. Dodd and David Knowles
15. A diversity of disciplines
16. The Second World War
17. The university and the world, 1945–90: a cosmopolitan society
18. The new colleges
19. Epilogue
Appendix 1. Fellows and undergraduates of the men's colleges, 1869–1919
Appendix 2. Student numbers by college, 1990–1
Appendix 3. College incomes, c.1926
Appendix 4. A note on schools
Appendix 5. Profession and status of Cambridge students
Bibliographical references
Index.
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