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The old boys : the decline and rise of the public school / David Turner.
LIBRA LC53.G7 T87 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, David (Journalist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private schools--Great Britain--History.
- Private schools.
- Preparatory schools--Great Britain--History.
- Preparatory schools.
- Education--Great Britain--History.
- Education.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Connecticut} : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 An Idealistic Cynic and the Birth of a System 1382-1603 1
- 2 Earls and Shoemakers 1611-1767 30
- 3 Of Frogs and Men 1768-1827 54
- 4 'First-Character. Second-Physique. Third-Intelligence.' 1828-1869 91
- 5 'The Monastic System is Getting on My Nerves.' 1870-1902 134
- 6 Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts 1902-1945 164
- 7 Embracing the Examination Incubus 1945-1979 193
- 8 A Golden Age At Last 1980-2014 220
- 9 Beautiful Natures, Overpriced Products and Self-Destruction 248
- 10 The Pauline and the Pasty 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300189926
- 0300189923
- OCLC:
- 904011176
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