WITS: The Early Years

A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and its Precursors 1896-1939

Bruce Murray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

412 Seiten

2022
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-808-0 (ISBN)

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WITS: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939. First established in 1922, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg developed out of the South African School of Mines in Kimberley circa 1896. Examining the historical foundations, the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg, and the progress of the University in the two decades prior to World War II, historian Bruce Murray captures the quality and texture of life in the early years of Wits University and the personalities who enlivened it and contributed to its growth.

Particular attention is given to the wider issues and the challenges which faced Wits in its formative years. The book examines the role Wits came to occupy as a major centre of liberal thought and criticism in South Africa, its contribution to the development of the professions of the country, the relationship of its research to the wider society, and its attempts to grapple with a range of peculiarly South African problems, such as the admission of black students to the University and the relations of English- and Afrikaans-speaking white students within it.

This edition of WITS: The Early Years is republished in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Keith Breckenridge, who writes, ‘In the republication of Murray’s two volume history of Wits, readers have an opportunity to explore the often dramatic and contested story of this university … Murray produced an intimate, almost scandalous intellectual history of the institution that served as his home for practically half a century.’

Bruce Murray was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the author of The People’s Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics and WITS: The ‘Open’ Years. Keith Breckenridge is a professor of History and Deputy Director at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Foreword by D.J. du Plessis

Foreword by Keith Breckenridge

Acknowledgements

Abbreviation

Part I: Prelude to a University

Chapter 1 False Start: Milner, Beit, and Smuts

Chapter 2 From School of Mines to University

Part II: The New University

Chapter 3 A Turbulent Beginning

Chapter 4 Administration, Finance, and Buildings

Chapter 5 Arts and Science

Chapter 6 The Professional Faculties

Part III: Raikes: The First Decade

Chapter 7 Depression and Recovery

Chapter 8 Ascendancy of the Professions

Part IV: Students and Special Issues

Chapter 9 Questions of Discrimination

Chapter 10 Student Life

A Note on Sources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2022
Vorwort	Keith Breckenridge
Zusatzinfo	115 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-77614-808-8 / 1776148088
ISBN-13	978-1-77614-808-0 / 9781776148080
Zustand	Neuware