The School of Oriental and African Studies: Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning

ISBN-13: 9781107164420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 346 str.

Etc Ian Brown

Opis

A history of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from its foundation in 1916.

Recenzje

'Ian Brown has written an authoritative institutional history without losing sight of the individuals who populate it. The School of Oriental and African Studies is one of the world's foremost centres of teaching and scholarship over its vast range of interests. Ian Brown shows that its very survival is near-miraculous, as it faced other jealous institutions, government bureaucracies full of promise and short on their fulfilment, parsimonious governments and indifferent commercial interests … This is a fine example of what an institutional history should aspire to be.' M. C. Ricklefs, Australian National University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'Long contemplated and too long delayed': the founding of the School; 2. 'Partly a research institution and partly a vocational training centre': 1917–38; 3. The war years, 1939–45; 4. The great post-war expansion; 5. Expansion into the social sciences; 6. The great contraction; 7. The 1990s: renewed expansion but unresolved issues; 8. The past in the present; Bibliography; Index.