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Sally Crawford - Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 - 9780199687558 - V9780199687558
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Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945

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Description for Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 Hardback. Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture. Editor(s): Crawford, Sally; Ulmschneider, Katharina; Elsner, Jas. Num Pages: 416 pages, 38 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; JFCX; JFFD; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to England following the rise of the Nazi regime, Germany's loss became Oxford's gain. From the mid-1930s onwards, Oxford could accurately be described as an 'ark of knowledge' of western civilization: a place where ideas about art, culture, and history could be rescued, developed, and disseminated freely. The city's ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199687558
SKU
V9780199687558
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4

About Sally Crawford
Sally Crawford is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford, where her research into the archives in collaboration with co-editor Katharina Ulmschneider has led to myriad exhibitions, lectures, and publications on the history of archaeology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Co-Director of the Historic Environment Image Resource, co-founder and Chair of the ... Read more

Reviews for Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945
this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the refugees who so enriched British culture in the 1930s and 1940s.
David Herman, Jewish Renaissance
this book documents stories of individuals and institutions showing imagination as well as sympathy ... it is good to be reminded of more enlightened and more generous impulses
Stefan Collini, ... Read more

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