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Empire of scholars: Universities, networks and the British academic world, 18501939 (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
Tamson Pietsch
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Paperback. Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719099304
SKU
V9780719099304
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About Tamson Pietsch
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, 18501939 (Studies in Imperialism MUP)
'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 ... Read more