At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Empire of scholars examines the networks that linked academics in Britain and the settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalisation. Stretching across the globe these networks helped map an expansive but exclusionary 'British academic world' that extended beyond the borders of the British Isles. The universities established in Britain's settler colonies in the middle part of the nineteenth century were initially local affairs, founded...
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly conne...
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Empire of scholars examines the networks that linked academics in Britain and the settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalisation. Stretching across the globe these networks helped map an expansive but exclusionary 'British academic world' that extended beyond the borders of the British Isles. The universities established in Britain's settler colonies in the middle part of the nineteenth century were initially local affairs, founded...
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly conne...
This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher education is a significant arena for regional and international transformation as well as domestic political struggle replete with unequal power relations.
This volume shows:
The causes and impacts of recent transformations in higher education within a transnational context;
Emerging similarities in objectives, institutional set-ups, and approaches taking place within higher education institutions across different world regions;
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This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics. It shows how higher education is a s...
