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University of Edinburgh : an illustrated history / Robert D. Anderson, Michael Lynch and Nicholas Phillipson.
LIBRA LF1041 .A54 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, R. D. (Robert David)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Edinburgh--History.
- University of Edinburgh.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This pioneering work is an attractively written and illustrated history of the University of Edinburgh since its origins in the late sixteenth century. The book covers the Reformation, the Enlightenment (in which the university played a central role), the introduction to the university syllabus of science and medicine, and the changing relationship between the university on the one hand and the city, the nation, and the United Kingdom and Europe on the other.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748616454
- 0748616462
- OCLC:
- 51993067
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