Empire of Scholars - Universities, Networks and the British Academic World, 1850-1939

Informationen zum Autor Tamson Pietsch is Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History at Brunel University London Klappentext Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of ‘Victorian’ globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's introductionIntroduction Part I: Foundations, 1802-801. Building institutions Part II: Connections, 1880-19142. Forging links 3. Making appointments 4. Imperial association Part III: Networks, 1900-395. Academic traffic6. The Great War 7. After the peacePart IV: Erosions, 1919-60 8. Alternate ties ConclusionAppendices Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tamson Pietsch
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9780719085024
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8502-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Hardco
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories