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This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between
antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William
Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure
for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to
Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688.
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 1 contains letters to and
from the librarian and antiquary Thomas Hearne, as well as two
accounts of Hearne's travels, on foot to Whaddon Hall in
Buckinghamshire in 1716, and on horseback to Reading and Silchester
in 1714, and the first fifty (organised alphabetically from Aiton
to Fletcher) of Aubrey's 'lives'.
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker
(1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian
Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it
contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men'
furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at
the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently
famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813
work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact
comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the
entirety of the third. Volume 2, Part 2 consists of the remainder
of Aubrey's 'lives', organised alphabetically from Foote to Wright,
together with his extended biography of Thomas Hobbes, which the
famous philosopher had asked his friend Aubrey to write, but which
again existed only in manuscript form until it was published in
this compilation.
Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were
established across the United States at a dizzying pace,
transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education.
Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned
network of public colleges and universities. This book is the first
comprehensive history of California's pioneering efforts to create
an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education.
The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that
established and funded an innovative, uniquely tiered, and
geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California.
This influential model for higher education, "The California Idea,"
created an organizational structure that combined the promise of
broad access to public higher education with a desire to develop
institutions of high academic quality. Following the story from
early statehood through to the politics and economic forces that
eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher
Education, The California Idea and American Higher Education offers
a carefully crafted history of public higher education.
The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea
that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain
entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American
society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of
admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the
University of California, the nation's largest public research
university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case
study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over
affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the
growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed
the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.
The United States has been the world leader in developing mass
higher education, using its pioneering network of public
universities to promote socioeconomic mobility and national
economic competitiveness. But the author warns that access and
graduation rates have stagnated and may even be declining,
particularly among younger students. Other countries, including key
members of the European Union, along with China, India, and other
developing nations, are aggressively reshaping and expanding their
higher education systems. The "American advantage" of a
high-quality and high-access higher education system is waning. The
closing chapters explore why this is the case and the consequences
within an increasingly competitive global economy.
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading
national universities and an alternative narrative to global
rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores
pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and
operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies
that gave them life and purpose.
The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading
national universities and an alternative narrative to global
rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores
pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and
operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies
that gave them life and purpose.
Full edition in modern spelling of Aubrey's racy portraits of
greatfigures of 16-17c England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John
Milton. John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of
17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid
evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a
Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 he inherited a family estate
encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From
then on he led a sociable, rootless existence at the houses of
friends - from Oxford and the Middle Temple -pursuing the
antiquarian studies which had always obsessed him. At his death in
1697 he left a mass of notes and manuscripts, among them the
material for Brief Lives. He never managed to put even a single
life into logical order; all we have are the raw materials,
scribbled down -`tumultuously as they occurred to my thoughts'.
With this full, modern English edition, which reproduces Aubrey's
words as closely as possible, Richard Barber introduces us to
Aubrey and his world, tells how the Lives came into being and
enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentric masterpiece.
The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling
impact on leading national universities and the societies they
serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's
right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are
threatening higher education. Universities have long been at the
forefront of both national development and global integration. But
the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing
a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in
domestic politics and international relations: a populist turn
inward among a key group of nation-states, often led by demagogues,
that includes China and Hong Kong, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Brazil,
the United Kingdom, and the United States. In many parts of the
world, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for populists
and autocrats to further consolidate their power. Within right-wing
political ecosystems, universities, in effect, offer the proverbial
canary in the coal mine-a clear window into the extent of civil
liberties and the political environment and trajectory of
nation-states. In Neo-nationalism and Universities, John Aubrey
Douglass provides the first significant examination of the rise of
neo-nationalism and its impact on the missions, activities,
behaviors, and productivity of leading national universities.
Douglass presents a major comparative exploration of the role of
national politics and norms in shaping the role of universities in
nation-states-and vice versa. He also explores when universities
are societal leaders or followers: When they are agents of social
and economic change, or simply agents reinforcing and supporting an
existing social and political order. In a series of case studies,
Douglass and contributors examine troubling trends that threaten
the societal role of universities, including attacks on civil
liberties, free speech, and the validity of science; the firing and
jailing of academics; anti-immigrant rhetoric; and restrictions on
visas with consequences for the mobility of academic talent. The
book also offers recommendations to preserve the autonomy and
academic freedom of universities and their constituents.
Neo-nationalism and Universities is written for a broad public
readership interested and concerned about the rise of nationalist
movements, illiberal democracies, and autocratic leaders.
Contributors: Jose Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Elizabeth
Balbachevsky, Thomas Brunotte, Igor Chirikov, Igor Fedyukin, Karin
Fischer, Wilhelm Krull, Brendan O'Malley, Bryan E. Penprase, Marijk
van der Wende
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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical
sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and
archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique
style, a blend of facts-names, dates, family, important works-and
personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for
research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his
lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten
manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the
centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern
Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own
right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era
and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and
philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever.
As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable
information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William
Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle.
But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its
readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and
day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to
discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a "poor" scholar "immerst...in
fabrication of his owne fortunes," or to read that Shakespeare, the
son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to
"make a speech" while slaughtering a calf. At times
straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief
Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living
history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside
the point-that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the
matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his
lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with
ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives.
Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during
his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of
centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars
who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that
Aubrey's work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of John Aubrey's Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and
biography reimagined for modern readers.
The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea
that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain
entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American
society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of
admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the
University of California, the nation's largest public research
university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case
study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over
affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the
growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed
the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.
The United States has been the world leader in developing mass
higher education, using its pioneering network of public
universities to promote socioeconomic mobility and national
economic competitiveness. But the author warns that access and
graduation rates have stagnated and may even be declining,
particularly among younger students. Other countries, including key
members of the European Union, along with China, India, and other
developing nations, are aggressively reshaping and expanding their
higher education systems. The "American advantage" of a
high-quality and high-access higher education system is waning. The
closing chapters explore why this is the case and the consequences
within an increasingly competitive global economy.
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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical
sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and
archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique
style, a blend of facts-names, dates, family, important works-and
personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for
research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his
lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten
manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the
centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern
Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own
right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era
and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and
philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever.
As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable
information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William
Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle.
But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its
readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and
day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to
discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a "poor" scholar "immerst...in
fabrication of his owne fortunes," or to read that Shakespeare, the
son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to
"make a speech" while slaughtering a calf. At times
straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief
Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living
history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside
the point-that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the
matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his
lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with
ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives.
Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during
his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of
centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars
who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that
Aubrey's work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of John Aubrey's Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and
biography reimagined for modern readers.
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