The University of Cambridge : a new history
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The University of Cambridge : a new history
I.B. Tauris, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-374) and index
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Description
The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts and heretical outbursts, shifts of political and religious allegiance and gripping stories of individual heroism and defiance, they are also narratives of difference and distinctiveness. G.R. Evans explores the remarkable and unique contribution that Cambridge University has made to society and culture, both in Britain and right across the globe, and will subsequently publish her history of Oxford University to complete a major new history of the two universities. Ranging across 800 years of vivid history, packed with incident, Evans here explores great thinkers such as John Duns Scotus - the 13th century Franciscan Friar who gave his name his name to 'dunces' - and celebrates the extraordinary molecular breakthroughs of Watson and Crick in the 20th century.
Moving from the radical new thinking of the Cambridge Platonists and the brilliant scientific discoveries of Isaac Newton to the discovery of the Double Helix and the notorious 'Garden House Hotel Riot' of 1970, the book is published to co-incide with the 800th anniversary of the University's foundation in 1209. The first short history of its kind, it will be a lasting and treasured resource for all Cambridge alumni/ae.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Cambridge in living memory: the last hundred years
i. Where is the University?
ii. Running their own show
iii. Shall we let women in?
iv. Meeting national needs: putting Cambridge in the spotlight
v. The First World War and the spectre of state inspection again
vi. Between the Wars
vii. World War II and a new world for Cambridge
viii Student revolution and eccentric dons: the swinging sixties
ix. The Colleges and the University rethink their relationship
x. Could Cambridge remain in a world of its own?
xi. Cambridge discovers 'administration'
xii. Cambridge's academics lose their security
xiii. A business-facing Cambridge?
xiv. Intellectual property rights and academic freedoms
xv. The capsize of CAPSA
xv. So where are we now?
2. How it all began
i. Europe invents universities
ii. How it all began in Cambridge
iii. Student life: the beginning of colleges
iii. What was it like to study for a degree in medieval Cambridge?
iv. The Dunce and the dunces: Cambridge as a backwater
3. Cambridge and the Tudor Revolution
i. Margaret Beaumont and John Fisher turn Cambridge's fortunes round
ii. The world as Cambridge's oyster
iii. Cambridge joins the 'Renaissance'
iv. Erasmus, Luther and a 'Reformation' Cambridge
iv. The Cambridge translators
v. Visitations: the bid for state control of Cambridge
vi. Edward VI and Cambridge
vii. Queen Mary and the martyrs
viii. Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge and protestant nationhood
4. Seventeenth and eighteenth century Cambridge: puritans and scientists
i. James I and Cambridge
ii. Hybrid vigour
iii. The Cambridge Platonists and the redrawing of the boundaries of theology
iv. Cambridge adjusts the relationship between God and nature
v. Isaac Newton: a Cambridge character in close-up
vi. Cambridge 'networking' on the international scene
vii. Puritan rigour, Civil War and Restoration
viii. John Milton and new trends in Cambridge language study
ix. From logic to experimental science
x. Enlightenment or marking time?
5. The nineteenth century transformation
i. Students have fun
ii. The early nineteenth century call for reform
iii. Scientific research becomes an academic activity with industrial outreach
iv. Forming the academic sciences and making them intellectually respectable
v. The 'learned societies' adjust their standards
vi. 'Call him a scientist'
vii. Must science exclude theology?
viii. Professorships and the emergence of academic specialization
ix. Teaching: should new 'useful ' subjects replace the classics?
x. Cambridge reconsiders its duty to society: the long legacy of Prince Albert's Chancellorship
xi. Applying science: Cambridge and the industrial uses of university research
xii. Widening access
xiii. Entrances and exits
xiv. Cambridge graduates: good men, good citizens
xv. Enter the Cambridge University Reporter
Conclusion
Glossary
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