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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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