At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Now available in paperback, Empire of scholars examines the networks that linked academics across the colonial world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Stretching across the globe, these networks helped map the boundaries of an expansive but exclusionary 'British academic world' that extended beyond the borders of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this book remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire. In doing so, it provides a new context for writing the history of ideas and offers a critical analysis of the connections that helped fashion the global world of universities today. -- .
By:
Tamson Pietsch
Series edited by:
Andrew Thompson,
John Mackenzie
Other:
Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780719099304
ISBN 10: 0719099307
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 June 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
General Editor's introduction Introduction Part I: Foundations, 1802-80 1. Building institutions Part II: Connections, 1880-1914 2. Forging links 3. Making appointments 4. Imperial association Part III: Networks, 1900-39 5. Academic traffic 6. The Great War 7. After the peace Part IV: Erosions, 1919-60 8. Alternate ties Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .
Tamson Pietsch is Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History at Brunel University London -- .
Reviews for Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World, 1850-1939
'Along with this exclusion of Americans, Pietsch also recognises racial and gendered exclusions, responding directly to the criticisms outlined above that have been levelled at the British World framework. She explicitly acknowledges that this British academic world privileged raced and gendered forms of trust and sociability, [and that] the social and institutional practices that connected settler scholars to those in Britain simultaneously sidelined the empire's various 'others.' ', Jared van Duinen, Charles Sturt University -- .
