University Politics
University Politics
$34.99
USDThis entertaining account of Cambridge around the turn of the twentieth century contains the centenary edition of the complete text of F. M. Cornford's famous satire of 1908 on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, together with a full account of the controversies which gave rise to it. Cambridge during this period was being subjected to pressure for reform from within and outside the University, forcing it to radical social and academic change, above all by extending and altering the curriculum and by admitting women. All these matters, many of which remain in debate at the beginning of the twenty-first century in Cambridge and in the wider academic community, provoked fierce debates and provided a rich context for Cornford's pamphlet. The book is illustrated with a selection of contemporary photographs and portraits.
- Re-released to mark the centenary of the publication of F. M. Cornford's Microcosmographia Academica
- A fascinating and rounded account of Cambridge at the turn of the last century in broad social context
- Illustrated with a selection of contemporary photographs and portraits
Product details
February 2008Paperback
9780521723732
124 pages
246 × 189 × 6 mm
0.29kg
19 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the centenary edition
- Introduction
- Cornford's Cambridge
- Cover to the first edition of Microcosmographia Academica
- Dedication to the second edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Advertisement
- Microcosmographia Academica
- Acknowledgments.
