In Defence of Learning
The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
Herausgeber: Marks, Shula; Wintour, Laura; Weindling, Paul
In Defence of Learning
The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
Herausgeber: Marks, Shula; Wintour, Laura; Weindling, Paul
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At a time of increasing international concern with immigration, this book is a timely reminder of the enormous contribution generations of academic refugees have made to learning the world over. The essays celebrate both the work of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and the achievements of the scholars themselves.
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At a time of increasing international concern with immigration, this book is a timely reminder of the enormous contribution generations of academic refugees have made to learning the world over. The essays celebrate both the work of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and the achievements of the scholars themselves.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 739g
- ISBN-13: 9780197264812
- ISBN-10: 0197264816
- Artikelnr.: 33603830
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 304
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 739g
- ISBN-13: 9780197264812
- ISBN-10: 0197264816
- Artikelnr.: 33603830
Professor Shula Marks: Born in Cape Town, Shula Marks was formerly Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, and is now Emeritus Professor of Southern African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Honorary Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, including most recently chapters in the New Cambridge History of South Africa, vol. 2 (forthcoming), and has supervised some fifty doctoral students. She is currently researching a book on the history of social medicine. She was Chair of the Society for the Protection and Learning/Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and is still a member of CARA's Council.
* Part 1. FOUNDERS AND FIRSTCOMERS
* 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and
the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938
* 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the
Founding Days of CARA
* 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning:
the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964
* 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment
* 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL
* PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN
* 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
* 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther
* PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES
* 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the
German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of
the Notgemeinschaft
* 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United
States, 1933-1945
* 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British
Federation of University Women
* 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists
in Search of Social Democratic Practice
* PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE
* 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists
* 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee
Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010
* 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic
Refugees of the Second World War
* 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile,
1948-1989
* 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the
UK, 1960-1980
* 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL
Collaboration
* Postscript
* 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and
the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938
* 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the
Founding Days of CARA
* 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning:
the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964
* 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment
* 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL
* PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN
* 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
* 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther
* PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES
* 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the
German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of
the Notgemeinschaft
* 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United
States, 1933-1945
* 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British
Federation of University Women
* 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists
in Search of Social Democratic Practice
* PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE
* 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists
* 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee
Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010
* 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic
Refugees of the Second World War
* 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile,
1948-1989
* 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the
UK, 1960-1980
* 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL
Collaboration
* Postscript
* Part 1. FOUNDERS AND FIRSTCOMERS
* 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and
the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938
* 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the
Founding Days of CARA
* 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning:
the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964
* 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment
* 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL
* PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN
* 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
* 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther
* PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES
* 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the
German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of
the Notgemeinschaft
* 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United
States, 1933-1945
* 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British
Federation of University Women
* 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists
in Search of Social Democratic Practice
* PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE
* 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists
* 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee
Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010
* 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic
Refugees of the Second World War
* 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile,
1948-1989
* 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the
UK, 1960-1980
* 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL
Collaboration
* Postscript
* 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and
the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938
* 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the
Founding Days of CARA
* 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning:
the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964
* 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment
* 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL
* PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN
* 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
* 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther
* PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES
* 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the
German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of
the Notgemeinschaft
* 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United
States, 1933-1945
* 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British
Federation of University Women
* 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists
in Search of Social Democratic Practice
* PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE
* 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists
* 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee
Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010
* 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic
Refugees of the Second World War
* 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile,
1948-1989
* 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the
UK, 1960-1980
* 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL
Collaboration
* Postscript