All Souls and the Wider World

Statesmen, Scholars, and Adventurers, C. 1850-1950
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-959370-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

All Souls College, Oxford, has been both widely praised and roundly abused for its fellows' non-academic pursuits. How was it that members of the college so often held dual citizenship in the worlds of learning and public affairs? Why, instead of becoming teaching 'dons', could they be found in government and politics, in law, diplomacy, and running the empire, in formulating foreign policy (including, supposedly, 'appeasement' of Hitler), in banking, journalism, and the 'republic
of letters'? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the foundation. Chichele's medieval college was always meant to be a training ground for careers in Church and government. But the origins of the modern phenomenon of 'prize fellows' active in a wider world beyond Oxford lies in the history of the
College during the decades around 1900, and in its 'second foundation' by the Warden, Sir William Anson. The studies collected in this volume explore the context, significance, and legacy of Anson's wardenship. They trace the activities of 'prize' and other fellows, both individually and in groups, in settings that range geographically from London to the capitals of empire and commonwealth in Africa, India, and Australia, and chronologically from the years preceding the First World War to the
Suez crisis.

Contributors:
S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden
Adrian Wooldridge
S.J.D. Green
Stephen Cretney
S.J.D. Green
Jim Davidson
Michael Howard
John Clarke
Sarvepalli Gopal
Sarvepalli Gopal
S.J.D. Green
Wm. Roger Louis
Wm. Roger Louis
J. Mordaunt Crook

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, S J D

Horden, Peregrine

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden: Introduction: Anson's Legacy - All Souls and the Wider World c. 1850-1950
1: Adrian Wooldridge: Prizes, Fellowship, and Open Competition in All Souls, c. 1850-1950
2: S.J.D. Green: 'Government by Mallardry': The Golden Age of the Prize Fellows, c. 1875-1925
3: Stephen Cretney: Simon: A Lawyer in Politics
4: S.J.D. Green: Government by a Mallardian: On the Possibility of Public Serivce in the Political Thought of R. H. Brand
5: Jim Davidson: Have Braink Will TravelL W.H. Hancock and the Idea of Public Service
6: Michael Howard: All Souls and 'The Round Table'
7: John Clarke: All Souls and the War of the Professors
8: Sarvepalli Gopal: All Souls and India: The 1920s
9: Sarvepalli Gopal: All Souls and India: The 1930s and After
10: S.J.D. Green: Appeasers and Anti-Appeasers: All Souls and the International Crisis of the 1930s
11: Wm. Roger Louis: Leo Amery and the Post-War World, 1945-55
12: Wm. Roger Louis: All Souls and Suez
13: J. Mordaunt Crook: G.M. Young: The Last Victorian?

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by S.J.D. Green, Reader in History, University of Leeds; Extraordinary Research Fellow All Souls College, and Peregrine Horden, Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway University of London; Extraordinary Research Fellow All Souls College