Empire of scholars: universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939

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

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1. Verfasser: Pietsch, Tamson 1978- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester ; New York Manchester University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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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
‘Pietsch’s readable study is a nuanced account of "the social and institutional practices of British and settler English-speaking universities" (p. 8) and explores libraries, scholarships, academic trafficking and appointment practices, and the formalization of imperial university relationships. The book, which is based on the records of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and its precursors, as well as a dozen or more university archives, includes a valuable calendar of dates of foundations of pre–World War II British and Empire universities. It is essential reading for historians of higher education.’
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. 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
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ISBN:9781784991760
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DOI:10.7765/9781784991760

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