A History of the University of Cambridge
Author | : James Bass Mullinger |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : James Bass Mullinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Michael H. Black |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2000-03-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521775724 |
A Short History of Cambridge University Press is an account of the world's oldest press, from the publication of the Press's first book in 1584 through to the present day. It emphasises the constitutional basis of the Press, which is an essential part of its parent university, and highlights the moments of change and crisis: Richard Bentley's revival in the 1690s, the Victorian renaissance in the 1850s, the rise of modern university publishing, two world wars, the crisis of the early 1970s - resolved by Geoffrey Cass's bold reconstruction - and the printing and publishing expansion of the 1990s. This history brings out the unique nature of the Press, which is an educational charitable enterprise, trading with vigour throughout the world and publishing over 2400 titles a year. This revised and illustrated second edition brings the story up to the turn of the millennium, and emphasises both the diversity of the Press's recent achievements and its current aims.
Author | : Peter Searby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521350600 |
Cambridge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a place of sharp contrasts. At one extreme a gifted minority studied mathematics intensively for the Tripos, the honours degree. At the other, most undergraduates faced meagre academic demands and might idle their time away. The dons, the fellows of the colleges that constituted the University, were chosen for their Tripos performance and included scholars of international reputation such as Whewell and Sidgwick, but also men who treated their fellowships as sinecures. A pillar of the Church of England that denied membership to non-Anglicans, the University functioned largely as a seminary, while teaching more mathematics than theology. This volume describes the complex institution of the University, and also the beginnings of its transformation after 1850 - under the pressure of public opinion and the State - into the University as it exists today: inclusive in its membership, diverse in its curricula, and staffed by committed scholars and teachers.
Author | : Christopher Brooke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521343503 |
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.
Author | : Leslie Howsam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107023734 |
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Hilde de Ridder-Symoens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1996-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521361064 |
This is the second volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of scholars under the general editorship of Professor Walter RÜegg, which covers the development of the university in Europe (both East and West) from its origins to the present day. Volume 2 attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the three centuries spanning the period 1500 to 1800.
Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992-09-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521308014 |
This is the first volume in a new three-volume history of the University Press, which will eventually bring the story as far as modern times: the next volume (on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is in preparation. The history is not only about University printers and their work--especially scholarly, schoolbook, Bible, prayer book and almanac publishing (the University Printers were England's largest suppliers of almanacs in the late seventeenth century)--but also about the rest of the seventeenth century book trade in Cambridge, London, continental Europe and North America.
Author | : Victor Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521350594 |
This volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Author | : J. Bass Mullinger |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-10-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780266167686 |
Excerpt from A History of the University of Cambridge University and the main current of religious thought and feeling in the country at large, - a connection which becomes more and more apparent in propor tion as the history of the former is more closely studied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.