Joanna Bourke (Professor of History, Professor of History, Birkbeck

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Birkbeck

200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• History of Universities Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 646
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1200g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846631
• ISBN-10: 0192846639
• Artikelnr.: 64035976