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The University of Cambridge : a new history /
The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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- Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 Cambridge in living memory: the last hundred years; The Colleges and the University rethink their relationship; Student revolution, eccentric dons and the Swinging Sixties; The Second World War and a new world for Cambridge; Between the Wars; The First World War and the spectre of state inspection again; Meeting national needs: putting Cambridge in the spotlight; Shall we let women in?; Running their own show; Where is the University?
- 'Do not ask the frogs before draining the pond'So where are we now?; The capsize of CAPSA; Intellectual Property Rights and academic freedoms; A business-facing Cambridge?; Cambridge dons lose their security; Cambridge discovers 'administration'; Could Cambridge remain in a world of its own?; The Dunce and the dunces: Cambridge as a backwater; What was it like to study for a degree in medieval Cambridge?; Student life: the beginning of colleges; How it all began in Cambridge; Europe invents universities; 2 How it all began; 3 Cambridge and the Tudor Revolution.
- Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge and protestant nationhoodQueen Mary and the martyrs; Edward VI and Cambridge; Visitations: the bid for state control of Cambridge; The Cambridge translators; Erasmus, Luther and a 'Reformation' Cambridge; Cambridge joins the 'Renaissance'; The world as Cambridge's oyster; Margaret Beaufort and John Fisher turn Cambridge's fortunes round; 4 Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge: puritans and scientists; Student Life; Enlightenment or marking time?; From logic to experimental science; John Milton and new trends in Cambridge language study.
- Puritan rigour, Civil War and RestorationCambridge 'networking' on the international scene; Isaac Newton: a Cambridge character in close-up; Cambridge adjusts the relationship between God and nature; The Cambridge Platonists and the redrawing of the boundaries of theology; Not 'two cultures' but a single body of knowledge; Applied science and 'useful' studies; Hybrid vigour; James I and Cambridge; Entrances and exits; Widening access; Applying science: Cambridge and the industrial uses of university research.
- Cambridge reconsiders its duty to society: the long legacy of Prince Albert's ChancellorshipTeaching: should new 'useful' subjects replace the classics?; Professorships and the emergence of academic specialization; Must science exclude theology?; 'Call him a scientist'; The 'learned societies' adjust their standards; Forming the academic sciences and making them intellectually respectable; Scientific research becomes an academic activity with industrial outreach; The early nineteenth-century call for reform; Students have fun; 5 The nineteenth-century transformation.