Taking Up the Torch : English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multi-Cultural Commitments

ISBN-13: 9781845193850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 315 str.

Opis

Documenting the formative experiences of a scholar who became a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics, this narrative aims to relate the shaping of self to the drift of history in a period of radical social change, extending from the refugee crisis caused by Hitler s seizure of power through the ordeals of the Second World War to post-war reconstruction, and the transformation of Britain into a modern multicultural society. With a focus on the formative role of institutions vicarage childhood, Anglican schooling, Cambridge and other university environments the book concludes with an account of the formidable challenges facing British universities 50 years later."