Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English Elite, 1870-1930

Reba N. Soffer

ISBN 10: 0804723834 / ISBN 13: 9780804723831

Editore: Stanford University Press January 1995, 1995

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used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. spine slightly sunned. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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• Titolo: Discipline and Power: The University, History, and the Making of an English Elite, 1870-1930
• Editore: Stanford University Press January 1995
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804723834
• ISBN 13: 9780804723831
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: VG-
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • HIST british / english

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Riassunto

This book is an intellectual and cultural account of the growth of history as an undergraduate discipline at Oxford and Cambridge in the nineteenth century. History, the familiar centre of a broad Victorian consensus about God, country and good, provided the most consistent moral panorama able to satisfy a variety of intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic needs. The book argues that history was taught in English universities in generally Whiggish ways to develop a sense of national duty and loyalty in students. These students were all part of an elite, and most were destined for the civil service or for other professional or elite business careers. The author treats the cultural and political role of history and history-teaching in much greater depth and with greater incisiveness than has ever been done before, and in so doing, marshals together a great deal of new evidence.

Informazioni sull?autore

Reba N. Soffer is Professor of History at California State University, Northridge.