Birkbeck
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284663-1 (ISBN)
Two hundred years ago, Birkbeck was founded as the London Mechanics' Institution (LMI). When it was established in 1823, one third of all men and half of all women were unable to read or write. British elites were vehemently hostile to educating working people. The country was in political turmoil and it was feared that education would destroy society. This was the context in which the LMI was established. From its foundation, it was unique. Birkbeck traces its history from 1823 to the present, with Joanna Bourke using the history of Birkbeck to reflect on life and culture in London over the past two centuries. What does it mean to be educated? Why have Birkbeck's students been prepared to give up so much in order to study for a higher degree? How does education help us become fully human and self-fulfilled by learning how to use all our faculties - knowledge, imagination, sympathy? The story of Birkbeck contains some blood, oceans of scholarly sweat, and not a few tears. But it is also a story of laughter, intellectual excitement, scholarly eccentricity, collective as well as personal ambition, and, most of all, the quirky passions and personalities that make up the Birkbeck community. It is a story of a unique university but also of higher education of Britain. It shows how knowledge can empower people to better themselves and improve the world.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | History of Universities Monographs |
| Zusatzinfo | over 100 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 166 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 1202 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-284663-9 / 0192846639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-284663-1 / 9780192846631 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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