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The University of London, 1858-1900
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 130.00A history of London University in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on political as well as academic developments. more...
Social Paralysis and Social Change
University of California Press 1991; US$ 70.00Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain?often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict?struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed... more...
Unity out of Diversity
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 140.00This history of the University traces the formation of the College of Higher Education in 1976 from a number of diverse institutions, dating from 1861 onwards, its progress to the foundation of the University in the context of public policy and local authority frameworks. In this respect, the book is more than a history of an individual institution:... more...
Gelehrte zwischen Humanismus und Reformation
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 35.00The University of Basel was founded in 1460 on the basis of a privilege from Pope Pius II. As a young man, this pope had spent several years in the town and felt a strong affinity with it throughout his life. This volume begins with an examination of this prominent humanist and describes the contexts of the founding of the university in a series of... more...



