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All Souls and the Wider World
. Ed(S): Green, S. J. D.; Horden, Peregrine
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Description for All Souls and the Wider World
A collection of studies of the ways in which the younger members of All Souls engaged with the wider worlds of politics, public administration, the law, diplomacy, running the British empire, formulating foreign policy, banking, journalism, and the 'republic of letters', covering the era from the First World War to the Suez crisis. Editor(s): Green, S. J. D.; Horden, Peregrine. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBLL; HBLW; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
All Souls College, Oxford, has been both widely praised and roundly abused for its fellows' non-academic pursuits. How was it that members of the college so often held dual citizenship in the worlds of learning and public affairs? Why, instead of becoming teaching 'dons', could they be found in government and politics, in law, diplomacy, and running the empire, in formulating foreign policy (including, supposedly, 'appeasement' of Hitler), in banking, journalism, and the 'republic of letters'? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the foundation. Chichele's medieval college was always meant to be a training ground for careers ... Read more
All Souls College, Oxford, has been both widely praised and roundly abused for its fellows' non-academic pursuits. How was it that members of the college so often held dual citizenship in the worlds of learning and public affairs? Why, instead of becoming teaching 'dons', could they be found in government and politics, in law, diplomacy, and running the empire, in formulating foreign policy (including, supposedly, 'appeasement' of Hitler), in banking, journalism, and the 'republic of letters'? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the foundation. Chichele's medieval college was always meant to be a training ground for careers ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199593705
SKU
V9780199593705
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Reviews for All Souls and the Wider World
S. J. D. Green's sparkling demolition of the case Rowse made against Fellows of his own College ... is charitable only in comparison with the demolition of Rowse himself.
Michael Bentley, Times Literary Supplement
All Souls and the Wider World seeks to estimate the public impact of the college. Compiled by fellows and former fellows, it could easily ... Read more
Michael Bentley, Times Literary Supplement
All Souls and the Wider World seeks to estimate the public impact of the college. Compiled by fellows and former fellows, it could easily ... Read more