Birkbeck

Birkbeck

200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People

Bourke, Joanna

Oxford University Press

09/2022

656

Dura

Inglês

9780192846631

15 a 20 dias

1202

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Preface
1: Introduction
Part I: From Mechanics to Graduates
2: The Crown and Anchor Tavern
3: Education for Whom?
4: Useful Knowledge
5: The Birkbeck Schools
6: Ravenscroft's Birkbeck Bank
7: Governing the College
8: What is a University?
Part II: Pleasure and Preferences
9: Art and Architecture
10: Dancing the Polka
11: The New Woman
12: Minoritised Communities
Part III: Student Life
13: 'Tea and Kippers'
14: Rabbits v. Hares; Or, Social Lives
15: Man v. Rabbits
16: Students' 'Joy-Night'
Part IV: War and Politics
17: Worlds at War, 1914-1918
18: Worlds at War, 1939-1945
19: Reds in the Classroom
20: Radical Intellectuals
Part V: Classrooms
21: Science in the World
22: Disciplines
23: Numerical Automation; Or, Computing
24: Paranormal Sciences
25: Teaching
Part VI: Battles for Birkbeck
26: 'Birkbeck's Unique Mission?'
27: Containing the Crisis
Part VII: Conclusion
28: Into the Twenty-First Century