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JB -- An Unlikely Spanish Don
Margaret Joan Anstee
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Description for JB -- An Unlikely Spanish Don
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; 2ADS; BG; CJ; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural and intellectual life. It was this wider experience that made his teaching so unique and makes his story central to the period through which he lived. At Cambridge with the doomed generation who were to perish in the First World War, Trend studied Natural Sciences but fell under the spell of the musicologist Edward Dent, who became his lifelong friend. A brilliant linguist and musician, ... Read more
John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural and intellectual life. It was this wider experience that made his teaching so unique and makes his story central to the period through which he lived. At Cambridge with the doomed generation who were to perish in the First World War, Trend studied Natural Sciences but fell under the spell of the musicologist Edward Dent, who became his lifelong friend. A brilliant linguist and musician, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195724
SKU
V9781845195724
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99-18
About Margaret Joan Anstee
After graduating at Cambridge as a student of Professor Trend, Margaret Joan Anstee has had an adventurous life working for the United Nations all over the world. A pioneer in an exclusively male world she became the first woman Under Secretary General and the first woman to head a military peacekeeping mission.
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