A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 3, 17501870
A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 3, 17501870
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This volume describes the structure, constitution and curricula of the University of Cambridge and the part it played in the political life of Britain. The careers and intellectual achievements of some leading scholars are decstribed in detal, while undergraduate life - social, sporting and academic - is examined through individual case-studies.
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A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 3, 17501870 by Peter Searby
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.
'Peter Searby … admirably meets the challenge of describing the transition from 'unreformed Cambridge' to something beginning to display recognizable marks of the University as it exists todayThis is full of rich and fascinating detail … wide-ranging study …'. The Times Literary Supplement
'… a surefooted account of the university's response to the upheavals generated by the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and by the movement for reform which followed it … it illuminates not only the history of a particular university but also that of the period more generally.' Economic History Review
'… a surefooted account of the university's response to the upheavals generated by the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and by the movement for reform which followed it … it illuminates not only the history of a particular university but also that of the period more generally.' Economic History Review
Brooke, Christopher: - Christopher Brooke is is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Cauius College, Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521350600 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521350603 |
| Title | A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 3, 17501870 |
| Author | Peter Searby |
| Series | History Of The University Of Cambridge |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 815 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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