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Birkbeck
200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
Buch von Joanna Bourke
Sprache: Englisch

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Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it contributed to the shaping of modern British higher education.
Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it contributed to the shaping of modern British higher education.
Über den Autor
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the prize-winning author of books on multiple subjects, including histories of modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, and rape. Among others, she is the author of An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005), Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present (2007), What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present (2011), and The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers. An Intimate History of Killing won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize. She is also a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular newspaper correspondent.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1: Introduction

  • Part I: From Mechanics to Graduates

  • 2: The Crown and Anchor Tavern

  • 3: Education for Whom?

  • 4: Useful Knowledge

  • 5: The Birkbeck Schools

  • 6: Ravenscroft's Birkbeck Bank

  • 7: Governing the College

  • 8: What is a University?

  • Part II: Pleasure and Preferences

  • 9: Art and Architecture

  • 10: Dancing the Polka

  • 11: The New Woman

  • 12: Minoritised Communities

  • Part III: Student Life

  • 13: 'Tea and Kippers'

  • 14: Rabbits v. Hares; Or, Social Lives

  • 15: Man v. Rabbits

  • 16: Students' 'Joy-Night'

  • Part IV: War and Politics

  • 17: Worlds at War, 1914-1918

  • 18: Worlds at War, 1939-1945

  • 19: Reds in the Classroom

  • 20: Radical Intellectuals

  • Part V: Classrooms

  • 21: Science in the World

  • 22: Disciplines

  • 23: Numerical Automation; Or, Computing

  • 24: Paranormal Sciences

  • 25: Teaching

  • Part VI: Battles for Birkbeck

  • 26: 'Birkbeck's Unique Mission?'

  • 27: Containing the Crisis

  • Part VII: Conclusion

  • 28: Into the Twenty-First Century

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 656
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780192846631
ISBN-10: 0192846639
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bourke, Joanna
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 162 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Joanna Bourke
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2022
Gewicht: 1,2 kg
preigu-id: 121656489
Über den Autor
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the prize-winning author of books on multiple subjects, including histories of modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, and rape. Among others, she is the author of An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005), Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present (2007), What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present (2011), and The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers. An Intimate History of Killing won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize. She is also a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular newspaper correspondent.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1: Introduction

  • Part I: From Mechanics to Graduates

  • 2: The Crown and Anchor Tavern

  • 3: Education for Whom?

  • 4: Useful Knowledge

  • 5: The Birkbeck Schools

  • 6: Ravenscroft's Birkbeck Bank

  • 7: Governing the College

  • 8: What is a University?

  • Part II: Pleasure and Preferences

  • 9: Art and Architecture

  • 10: Dancing the Polka

  • 11: The New Woman

  • 12: Minoritised Communities

  • Part III: Student Life

  • 13: 'Tea and Kippers'

  • 14: Rabbits v. Hares; Or, Social Lives

  • 15: Man v. Rabbits

  • 16: Students' 'Joy-Night'

  • Part IV: War and Politics

  • 17: Worlds at War, 1914-1918

  • 18: Worlds at War, 1939-1945

  • 19: Reds in the Classroom

  • 20: Radical Intellectuals

  • Part V: Classrooms

  • 21: Science in the World

  • 22: Disciplines

  • 23: Numerical Automation; Or, Computing

  • 24: Paranormal Sciences

  • 25: Teaching

  • Part VI: Battles for Birkbeck

  • 26: 'Birkbeck's Unique Mission?'

  • 27: Containing the Crisis

  • Part VII: Conclusion

  • 28: Into the Twenty-First Century

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 656
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780192846631
ISBN-10: 0192846639
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bourke, Joanna
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 241 x 162 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Joanna Bourke
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2022
Gewicht: 1,2 kg
preigu-id: 121656489
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