Richard selleck (4 risultati)
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Hardback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Stuart MacintyreFormat: HardbackNumber of Pa…ges: 200With its early buildings erected at the same time as those of the Victorian parliament, the University of Melbourne was raised when its namesake was a frontier town and the first classes offered were attended by just 16 students. Lively, shrewd, and erudite, this history explores the evolution of the campus site, the tensions and achievements of the academicians it employed, and the variety of students who studied there. The subtlety of storytelling and the nostalgic reverence for the university imbue this tribute with a respect for how the university has offered a critical perspective on the increasing complexity of Australian society. Hardback.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Reprint. B&W photographs throughout. 21 cm x 16 cm. 193 pp.
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Da: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, AustraliaA Small Bookshop
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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Reprint. B&W photographs throughout. 21 cm x 16 cm. 193 pp.
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Da: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, AustraliaBook Grocer
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Paperback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Selleck, RichardFormat: Paperback Number of… Pages: 876This is a warm, wry narrative, gentle but persistent in its ironies, and marvelously attuned to the untidiness, drama and farce of the birth and progress of a self-consciously prestigious institution. Amid the excitement and disorder of the gold rush, Melbourne's middle class created the University of Melbourne-known to many generations as 'The Shop'-to serve the interests of its sons. The foundation professors were well acquainted with the ancient universities of England and Ireland, but they swiftly realised that colonial society had different needs and visions. Richard Selleck adroitly places the university in its historical and political context. He examines its relation to government, the press and the school system, and its mutually self-serving links with the professions such as law, medicine, engineering and teaching. He analyses the contemporary intellectual debates- the significance of evolution and political economy, the power and promise of science, the challenge to religious belief, the status of classical education, the growth of socialism, the equivocal liberation of women, the still more equivocal treatment of indigenous people, the birth of a research university, the vagaries of Empire, and the precariousness of academic freedom. This book challenges those who work or study in universities today, and those who fund them, to measure themselves against their predecessors. The inescapable conclusion is that most of the issues that convulsed the University of Melbourne in its formative decades are still alive and troublesome today. Paperback.
