A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry / edited by Heather Ellis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Heather, editor.

Pietsch, Tamson, editor.

Series:

The Cultural Histories Series.

The Cultural Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--History.

Education, Higher.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry tells a story about the transformation of higher learning in the long nineteenth century. Its chapters identify the diverse settings for learning and scholarship at the start of this period that extended beyond the sites of the still-emerging research university, and show how these disparate entities were – often across vast distances – appropriated and recruited by different actors seeking to professionalise knowledge, redraw its boundaries, and embed it within the world of universities. This transformation was sometimes violent and frequently contested. The expansion of European empires and industrial mass society is a crucial context for this story. A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry presents essays on higher learning and cultures; geographies; authorities; teaching; disciplines; communities; materialities; contestations and an epitome exploring higher learning and internationalism.

Contents:

General Editor Preface, Ning de Coninck-Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark), Julia Horne (University of Sydney, Australia) and William Whyte (University of Oxford, UK) Introduction, Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield, UK) and Tamson Pietsch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 1. Cultures, Pieter Dhondt (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) 2. Geographies, Heike Jöns (Loughborough University, UK) 3. Authorities, H.S. Jones (University of Manchester, UK) 4. Teaching, Tom O’Donoghue (University of Western Australia, Australia) 5. Disciplines, Paul Turnbull (University of Tasmania, Australia) 6. Communities, Tomás Irish (Swansea University, UK) 7. Materialities, Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln, UK) 8. Contestations, Samuel Rutherford (University ofGlasgow, UK) 9. Epitome: Internationalism, Charlotte A. Lerg (LMU, Germany)

ISBN:

9781350231993

OCLC:

1582442638