Swansea University (eBook)

Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945-2020

Sam Blaxland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
352 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-608-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945-2020 marks Swansea University's centenary. It is a study of post- Second World War academic and social change in Britain and its universities, as well as an exploration of shifts in youth culture and the way in which higher education institutions have interacted with people and organisations in their regions. It covers a range of important themes and topics, including architectural developments, international scholars, the changing behaviours of students, protest and politics, and the multi-layered relationships that are formed between academics, young people and the wider communities of which they are a part. Unlike most institutional histories, it takes a 'bottom-up' approach and focuses on the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of people like students and non-academic staff who are normally sidelined in such accounts. As it does so, it utilises a large collection of oral history testimonies collected specifically for this book; and, throughout, it explores how formative, paradoxical and unexpected university life can be.

Inhalt

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on terms and place names
Note on oral history interviews.
Introduction
Chapter 1 - ‘Communities of learning’: Intellectual and Economic Reconstruction, 1945–1956.
Chapter 2 - ‘A Quiet Revolution’: Campus and Community Life, 1947–1964.
Chapter 3 - ‘How in hell can we cool them down?’: Politics and Protest, 1964–1973
Chapter 4 – ‘Don’t be so Complacent!’: Crisis and Cutbacks, 1973 – 1988.
Chapter 5 - ‘Change with the times’: Marketisation and Commercialisation, 1988–2020.
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1945–2020 • Campus • Community • Post • Swansea • University • war • World
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-608-4 / 1786836084
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-608-3 / 9781786836083