Screen LibraryThe University of Oxford : a new history /
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| Published: |
I.B. Tauris,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | New paperback edition. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-348) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781780764948 (paperback) : 1780764944 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | LF509 |
| CLC: | G649.561.8 |
| Call Number: | G649.561.8/E925 |
| Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Towards Oxford today -- Not an Inkling of the future? -- Riding out the First World War -- Oxford takes the state's penny -- Letting the women in: 1920 and after -- Between the Wars -- The Second World War and its aftermath -- A Symposium at Worcester: the 1950s to the 1980s -- From student protest to the battle for academic freedom -- The 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century -- 2.Oxford's Middle Ages -- Oxford from the inside: inventing a University -- Designing a syllabus -- Housing the scholars -- Quarrels and confrontations -- 3.Oxford and the interfering Tudors -- Renaissance in Oxford -- Reformation in Oxford -- Consequences for the colleges -- Another inspection: Edward VI goes `visiting' -- Mary Tudor's Visitors: the volte-face -- Elizabeth places Oxford under the statutes of the realm -- Teaching the Arts from the late sixteenth century -- 4.Oxford keeps up with the times -- Oxford and the state -- Contents note continued: A society of scholars: student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic life -- Teaching: the changing intellectual life of Oxford -- Experiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities -- The Bodleian Library and the University Press -- 5.The nineteenth-century transformation -- Varieties of student life at Oxford -- The Oxford Movement -- State interference and the threat of external `reform' brings about major change -- What became of the liberal arts? -- Bringing the syllabus up to date: the Oxford reform of classical education -- Oxford studies the sciences -- Examinations reformed. |