In this Book
- Empire of scholars: Universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850–1939
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Now available in paperback, Empire of scholars examines the networks that linked academics across the colonial world in the age of ‘Victorian’ globalization. Stretching across the globe, these networks helped map the boundaries of an expansive but exclusionary ‘British academic world’ that extended beyond the borders of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this book remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire. In doing so, it provides a new context for writing the history of ideas and offers a critical analysis of the connections that helped fashion the global world of universities today.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Series Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- General editor’s introduction
- pp. vii-viii
- Preface and acknowledgements
- pp. ix-xi
- Note on terminology
- pp. xii-xiii
- Abbreviations
- p. xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part I. Foundations: 1802-80
- Part II. Connections: 1880-1914
- Part III. Networks: 1900–39
- Part IV. Erosions, 1919–60s
- Conclusion
- pp. 199-202
- Bibliography
- pp. 213-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9781784991760
Related ISBN(s)
9780719085024, 9780719099304
MARC Record
OCLC
861541160
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-14
Language
English
Open Access
No