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      • Volume 3: 1750–1870
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2012
      November 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582202
      9780521350600
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582202
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.415kg, 815 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Humanities, Cambridge University Publications, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      History of the University of Cambridge (3)
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    Cambridge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a place of sharp contrasts. At one extreme a gifted minority studied mathematics intensively for the Tripos, the honours degree. At the other, most undergraduates faced meagre academic demands and might idle their time away. The dons, the fellows of the colleges that constituted the University, were chosen for their Tripos performance and included scholars of international reputation such as Whewell and Sidgwick, but also men who treated their fellowships as sinecures. A pillar of the Church of England that denied membership to non-Anglicans, the University functioned largely as a seminary, while teaching more mathematics than theology. This volume describes the complex institution of the University, and also the beginnings of its transformation after 1850 - under the pressure of public opinion and the State - into the University as it exists today: inclusive in its membership, diverse in its curricula, and staffed by committed scholars and teachers.

    Reviews

    ‘Peter Searby … admirably meets the challenge of describing the transition from ‘unreformed Cambridge’ to something beginning to display recognizable marks of the University as it exists today. This is full of rich and fascinating detail … wide-ranging study …’.

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘… a surefooted account of the university’s response to the upheavals generated by the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and by the movement for reform which followed it … it illuminates not only the history of a particular university but also that of the period more generally.’

    Source: Economic History Review

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