A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 4, 1870-1990

by Christopher N. L. Brooke

Overview

The University of Cambridge has been a federation of colleges for centuries; in the past hundred years it has also become a center of international fame in many disciplines, with numerous faculties and departments. Volume IV of A History of the University of Cambridge covers the years 1870-1990, and explores the fascinating labyrinth of the federation and the nature of this extraordinary academic growth; it also sketches the society of the University and its place in the world; the role of religion and learning; the entry of women; and the leading characters in the story—Henry Sidgwick, F. W. Maitland, Gowland Hopkins, Ernest Rutherford, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521343503
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/10/1992
Series:	History of the University of Cambridge , #4
Pages:	678
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.69(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Prologue; 2. The university and the colleges; 3. The second Royal Commission and university reform, 1872–1914; 4. Religion, 1870–1914; 5. Theology; 6. The natural sciences; 7. Classics, law and history; 8. The society; 9. Women, 1868–1948; 10. The Great War, 1914–19; 11. Sir Hugh Anderson, the Asquith Commission and its sequel; 12. The University Library; 13. The dons' religion in twentieth-century Cambridge; 14. Religion and learning: C. H. Dodd and David Knowles; 15. A diversity of disciplines; 16. The Second World War; 17. The university and the world, 1945–90: a cosmopolitan society; 18. The new colleges; 19. Epilogue; Appendix 1. Fellows and undergraduates of the men's colleges, 1869–1919; Appendix 2. Student numbers by college, 1990–1; Appendix 3. College incomes, c.1926; Appendix 4. A note on schools; Appendix 5. Profession and status of Cambridge students; Bibliographical references; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Who better to be our guide to modern Cambridge than the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History?....Brooke loves Cambridge and the number of topics he finds space to discuss is astonishing. He makes one wish the one volume had been two." Noel Annan, London Review of Books

"His tale is well-balanced and measured, treating personalities, disciplines of stucy, colleges, and institutional developments of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with equal seriousness. The book ultimately succeeds in weaving a coherent whole, leaving the reader with a sense of place and continuity, bearing witness to one institution's seemingly successful adaptation to historical change." Canadian Journal of History

"All in all, Christopher Brooke has done a commendable job....Brooke manages to maintain the reader's interest and avoid the temptation to let his history degenerate into mere lists." D.E. Moggridge, Albion

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