General Editor's introduction
Introduction
Part I: Foundations, 1802–80
1. Building institutions
Part II: Connections, 1880–1914
2. Forging links
3. Making appointments
4. Imperial association
Part III: Networks, 1900–39
5. Academic traffic
6. The Great War
7. After the peace
Part IV: Erosions, 1919–60
8. Alternate ties
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Tamson Pietsch is Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History at Brunel University London
'Along with this exclusion of Americans, Pietsch also recognises
racial and gendered exclusions, responding directly to the
criticisms outlined above that have been levelled at the British
World framework. She explicitly acknowledges that this British
academic world privileged “raced and gendered forms of trust and
sociability, [and that] the social and institutional practices that
connected settler scholars to those in Britain simultaneously
sidelined the empire’s various ‘others.’”', Jared van Duinen,
Charles Sturt University
‘Pietsch’s readable study is a nuanced account of “the social and
institutional practices of British and settler English-speaking
universities” (p. 8) and explores libraries, scholarships, academic
trafficking and appointment practices, and the formalization of
imperial university relationships. The book, which is based on the
records of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and its
precursors, as well as a dozen or more university archives,
includes a valuable calendar of dates of foundations of pre–World
War II British and Empire universities. It is essential reading for
historians of higher education.’
William H. Brock, Isis—Volume 107, Number 4, December 2016
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