International Dictionary of University Histories

ISBN-13: 9781884964237 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 808 str.

Mary Elizabeth Devine; Carol Summerfield

Opis

Provides basic information on 200 institutions - location, description, sources of further information - followed by a 3000 to 5000 word essay on each university's history. Entries on each university conclude with a further reading list, and all entries are illustrated.

Recenzje

"The book does a good job of giving historical details on a wide variety of universities." -- Choice
"International Dictionary of University Histories is a good read as well as a reference book... The essays are informative and interesting, and the photographs could make you apply immediately as an exchange students." -- Reference & User Services Quarterly

Spis treści

Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark); Aarhus University (Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark); Al-Azhar University (Cairo, Egypt); Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany); Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India); Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Antioch University (Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.A.); Atlanta University Center (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.); Barnard College (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Beijing University (Beijing, China); Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, U.S.A.); Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.); Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, U.S.A.); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.); Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic); Chinese University of Hong Kong (New Territories, Hong Kong); The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.); City University of New York (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Claremont Colleges (Claremont, California, U.S.A.); College of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.); Columbia University (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain); Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa, U.S.A.); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.); Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.); Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.); Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany); École Nationale D'Administration (Paris, France); École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France); École Polytechnique (Paris, France); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.); Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland); Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil); Free University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Georgetown University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Georgia Augustus University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany); Guilford College (Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.); Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel); Howard University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Humboldt University (Berlin, Gemany); Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.); Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi, India); Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.); Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, India); Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland); Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.); Keio University (Tokyo, Japan); Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan); Laval University (Quebec, Canada); Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany); Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary); Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Munich, Germany); Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Wittenberg, Germany); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); McGill University (Montreal, Canada); Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia); National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); National University of Ireland (Republic of Ireland); National University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru); New School for Social Research (New York, New York, U.S.A.); New York University (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.); Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A.); Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.); Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.); Philipps University of Marburg (Marburg an der Lahn, Germany); Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.); Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.); Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Reed College (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.); Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.); Ruprecht Karls University (Heidelberg, Germany); Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.); St. John's College (Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.); Seoul National University (Seoul, Republic of Korea); Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Stanford University (Stanford, California, U.S.A.); State University of New York (New York, U.S.A.); Strasbourg University (Strasbourg, France); Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India); Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel); Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.); United States Military Academy at West Point (West Point, New York, U.S.A.); United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.); University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland); University of Aix-Marseille (Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, France); University of Alcalá De Henares (Alcalá De Henares, Spain); University of Arizona (Tyicson, Arizona, U.S.A.); University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain); University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France); University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina); University of California (California, U.S.A.); University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England); University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand); University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.); University of Chile (Santiago, Chile); University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal); University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany); University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark); University of Dublin Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland); University of Durham (Durham, England); University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland); University of Florence (Florence, Italy); University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland); University of Granada (Granada, Spain); University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.); University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A); University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands); University of London (London, England); University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium); University of Manchester (Manchester, England); University of Melbourne (Parkville, Australia); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.); University of Minnesota (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.); University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.); University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France); University of Mumbai (Bombay) (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India); University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.); University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A.); University of Orléans (Orléans, France); University of Oxford (Oxfordshire, England); University of Paris (Paris, France); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy); University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, U.S.A.); University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland); University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain); University of Seville (Seville, Spain); University of Siena (Siena, Italy); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.); University of Sydney (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia); University of Texas System (Texas, U.S.A); University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.A.); University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan); University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain); University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria); University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.); University of Wales (Cardiff, Wales); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.); University of Wisconsin (Wisconsin, U.S.A.); Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.); Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.); Visva-Bharati University (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India); Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A.); Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.); Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel); Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Willamette University (Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.); Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.)

O autorze

Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield