{"product_id":"utopian-universities-9781350227385","title":"Utopian Universities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiles Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern History at the University of York, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Pellew\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Univeristy of London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly readable, well-informed and authoritative account of a crucial period in the development of higher education in the UK and globally. * Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWith so much valuable first-hand insight, this book will undoubtedly serve as a useful reference on the ways in which different countries and their academics responded to the challenge of creating universities for the mid twentieth century, as a starting point for those looking to take a more comparative approach to this period in higher education. * Oxford Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eThis welcome book brings together the perspectives of several historians who look at higher education’s recent past, back about 60 years. ... Most compelling is the tone of the contributing authors. * Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education *\u003cbr\u003eBy focusing on the new campuses of the 1960s, and seeking to explain how higher education has evolved into the mass phenomenon that it has become today, this book addresses a significant gap. ... [T]his volume is highly recommended to anyone interested in educational development and its politics. * H-Soz-Kult *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUtopian Universities\u003c\/i\u003e is unquestionably an authoritative and key text in the study of post-war higher education and suggests some exciting future directions of inquiry for the field. ...\u003ci\u003e Utopian Universities\u003c\/i\u003e will be an invaluable foundation to build on. * History Workshop Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Contributors  Maps  Preface \u003ci\u003eLaurie Taylor (University of York, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction \u003ci\u003eJill Pellew (Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK) and Miles Taylor (University of York, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  1. Keele: Post-War Pioneer \u003ci\u003eMiles Taylor (University of York, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e  2. Learning From Redbrick: Utopianism and Architectural Legacy of the Civic Universities \u003ci\u003eWilliam Whyte (University of Oxford, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   3. Sussex: Cold War Campus\u003ci\u003e Matthew Cragoe (University of Lincoln, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. The University of East Anglia: From Mandarins to Neoliberalism \u003ci\u003eJohn Charmley (St Mary’s University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Oxford on the Ouse?: The Founding of the University of York 1960 to 1973 \u003ci\u003eAllen Warren (University of York, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Great Expectations: Sloman’s Essex and Student Protest in the 'Long 1960s' \u003ci\u003eCaroline Hoefferle (Wingate University, North Carolina, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. The New and the Old: the University of Kent at Canterbury \u003ci\u003eKrishan Kumar (University of Virginia, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Social History Comes to Warwick\u003ci\u003e Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Innovation and Evolution: Lancaster Learning, 1964-74 \u003ci\u003eMarion McClintock (Lancaster University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. Failed Utopia? The University of Stirling from the 1960s to the Early 1980s \u003ci\u003eHolger Nehring (University of Stirling, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. The New University of Ulster and the Northern Ireland Crisis \u003ci\u003eTom Fraser and Leonie Murray (Ulster University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Science and the New Universities \u003ci\u003eJon Agar (UCL, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. The New British Campus Universities of the 1960s and Their Localities: The Culture of Support and the Role of Philanthropy \u003ci\u003eJill Pellew (University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. California Dreaming: Clark Kerr and the State University \u003ci\u003eChristopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  15. The Other 60s: Academic Administrators as Agents of Change in Canadian Higher Education \u003ci\u003ePaul Axelrod (York University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  16. From Progressive Pedagogy to ‘Capitalist Fodder’: the New Universities in Australia \u003ci\u003eHannah Forsyth (Australian Catholic University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  17. Jawaharlal Nehru University: A University for the Nation \u003ci\u003eRajat Datta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and Shalini Sharma (Keele University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  18. From American Dream to Nightmare on The Left: Student Revolts, the ‘Wild Nursery’ and the Slums: The University of Nanterre, 1962-71 \u003ci\u003eVictor Collet (University of Paris X, France)\u003c\/i\u003e  19. The Reform Universities of West Germany: Bochum, Konstanz and Bielefeld \u003ci\u003eStefan Paulus (University of Augsburg, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  20. Utopian Universities of the British Commonwealth \u003ci\u003eMiles Taylor (University of York, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  Afterword  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084836073815,"sku":"9781350227385","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350227385.jpg?v=1762207307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/utopian-universities-9781350227385","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}