Author: Elizabeth Mary WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Life of Joseph Wright, 2 Vol
Author: Elizabeth Mary WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Life of Joseph Wright, Vols. 1-2, by Elizabeth Wright
Author: Elizabeth mary WrightThe Life of Joseph Wright
Author: Elizabeth Mary WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2
Author: M. G. BrockPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191559660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Volume VII of The History of the University of Oxford completes the survey of nineteenth-century Oxford begun in Volume VI. After 1871 both teachers and students at Oxford were freed from tests of religious belief. The volume describes the changed mental climate in which some dons sought a new basis for morality, while many undergraduates found a compelling ideal in the ethic of public service both at home and in the empire. As the existing colleges were revitalized, and new ones founded, the academic profession in Oxford developed a peculiarly local form, centred upon college tutors who stood in somewhat uneasy relation with the University's professors. The various disciplines which came to form the undergraduate curriculum in both the arts and sciences are subject to major reappraisal; and Oxford's 'hidden curriculum' is explored through accounts of student life and institutions, including organized sport and the Oxford Union. New light is shed on the social origins and previous schooling of undergraduates. A fresh assessment is made of the movement to establish women's higher education in Oxford, and the strategies adopted by its promoters to implant communities for women within the masculine culture of an ancient university. Other widened horizons are traced in accounts of the University's engagement with imperial expansion, social reform, and the educational aspirations of the labour movement, as well as the transformation of its press into a major international publisher. The architectural developments–considerable in quantity and highly varied in quality–receive critical appraisal in a comprehensive survey of the whole period covered by Volumes VI and VII (1800-1914). By the early twentieth century the challenges of socialism and democracy, together with the demand for national efficiency, gave rise to a renewed campaign to address issues such as promoting research, abolishing compulsory Greek, and, more generally, broadening access to the University. Under the terrible test of the First World War, still more deep-seated concerns were raised about the sider effects of Oxford's educational practices; and the volume concludes with some reflections on the directions which the University had taken over the previous fifty years. series blurb No private institutions have exerted so profound an influence on national life over the centuries as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Few universities in the world have matched their intellectual distinction, and none has evolved and maintained over so long a period a strictly comparable collegiate structure. Now a completely new and full-scale History of the University of Oxford, from its obscure origins in the twelfth century until the late twentieth century, has been produced by the university with the active support of its constituent colleges. Drawing on extensive original research as well as on the centuries-old tradition of the study of the rich source material, the History is altogether comprehensive, appearing in eight chronologically arranged volumes. Together the volumes constitute a coherent overall study; yet each has a unity of its own, under individual editorship, and brings together the work of leading scholars in the history of every university discipline, and of its social, institutional, economic, and political development as well as its impact on national and international life. The result is a history not only more authoritative than any previously produced for Oxford, but more ambitious than any undertaken for any other European university, and certain to endure for many generations to come.
The Life of Joseph Wright (vol. 1).
Author: Elizabeth Mary WrightHistory of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 2. Teilband
Author: Sylvain AurouxPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311019421X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and the application of the comparative method to non-Indo-European languages from all over the globe. Typological linguistic interests, first synthesized by Humboldt, as well as the development of various other non-historical endeavours in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, such as language and psychology, semantics, phonetics, and dialectology, receive ample attention.
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Visions of the People
Author: Patrick JoycePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In examining how the laboring people of nineteenth-century England saw their social order, this text looks beyond class to reveal the significance of other sources of social identity and social imagery, including the notions of "the people" themselves.
The Connoisseur
Author: A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972
Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308038
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.