Books, Nonfiction, Education, Europe & Eurasia

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Alexander Sutherland Neill
Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
by St. Martin's Press (Hardcover)

A guide to experimental education, originally published in 1960 and expanded for the 1990s, features a discussion of how American education lags behind the rest of the world and what people can do to change that.

The Oxford Book of Oxford (Oxford paperbacks)
by Oxford Paperbacks (Paperback)

In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of the university from it foundation in the Middle Ages through to 1945, combining extracts from contemporary observers with her own linking commentary. Important events in the history of the University are described and explained ( development of the college system, Magdalen's defiance of James II, Newman and the Oxford Movement), and its life and times are exalted or derided by writers ranging from Anthony Wood to Evelyn Waugh. Unworldly scholars and eccentric dons walk these pages: characters like Benjamin Jowett, Sir Maurice Bowra and William Spooner, who ordered an undergraduate to `leave by the town drain', and coined Spoonerism.

A.S. Neill
Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Education (Pelican)
by Penguin Books Ltd (Paperback)

Kevin Taylor
Central Cambridge: A Guide to the University and Colleges
by Cambridge University Press (Paperback)

This is the guidebook that most people interested in Cambridge will need. Combining an accessible style with accuracy of fact and a wealth of historical detail, it is a book that can be used to accompany a walking tour around the University and colleges, or read at leisure as an authoritative introduction. Packed with newly commissioned color illustrations and detailed maps, it provides a comprehensive survey of the collegiate University. There is an informative introduction, a full list of colleges, a glossary, and an index.

Martha McMackin Garland
Cambridge Before Darwin: The Ideal of a Liberal Education, 1800-1860
by Cambridge University Press (Hardcover)

In this major contribution to the intellectual history of Cambridge University, Dr Garland takes as her main theme the rise of a specific educational ideal in early Victorian Cambridge, how it enjoyed a moment of triumph, and then how it fell under the impact of a new set of challenges. The story revolves around the careers of a group of 'conservative reformers', led by the Trinity dons Whewell and Sedgwick. They were the self-designated providers of a refurbished version of traditional Cambridge values in the new environment of a rapidly industrializing England, and took as their ideal a general unified core of knowledge based upon mathematics, classics and moral philosophy. They wished to retain this general structure because they believed it corresponded to the structure of the human mind and its mental faculties. For them, belief in the harmony of science and religion was part and parcel of their basically Broad Church religious views.

Jonathan Croall
Neill of Summerhill : The Permanent Rebel
by Pantheon Books (Hardcover)

Robert Willis
The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton 3 volume set (hardback)
by Cambridge University Press (Hardcover)

Robert Willis's monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge, first published in 1886 in a revised and extended edition by his nephew J. W. Clark, was hailed as 'one of the most important contributors to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man'. The three illustrated text volumes are now reprinted for the first time, in their entirety, with new introductory material in Volume 1 by David Watkin. Although 'Wilis and Clark' has always been reorganised by architectural historians as one of the greatest studies of the buildings of a single historic city, its wider importance and status have been recognised only more recently by those interested generally in the conservation of buildings and in the historic development of architectural style and taste. Its unique collection of over three hundred plans, antique and specially commissioned engravings is alone sufficient to make this the one indispensable work of ...

George M Addy
The Enlightenment in the University of Salamanca (Duke historical publications)
by Duke University Press (Unknown Binding)

Register of Congregations, 1505-17, Vol I (Oxford Historical Society Second Series)
by Oxford Historical Society (Hardcover)

Analysis of the organisation of Oxford University in the early 16th century followed by part of the text of the University register of congregations (1505-8).

Jonathan Davies
Florence and Its University During the Early Renaissance (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, V. 8)
by Brill Academic Publishers (Hardcover)

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