| Description |
1 online resource (402 p.) |
| Contents |
Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I -- Academy and community in the nineteenth-century city -- The mechanics' institutes and the spread of 'useful knowledge' -- Vignette 1: The founders of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution -- Heidelberg in Cottonopolis: how Roscoe brought German ideas to Manchester -- James Bryce's Manchester: the politics of the remaking of Owens College, 1865-75 -- Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library |
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William Boyd Dawkins: race, geology and the deep past in Manchester, 1869-1929 -- Ancoats and lab coats: Sheridan Delépine and municipal public health -- 'In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers': Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper and the Manchester University Settlement in Ancoats, 1896-1907 -- PART II -- Civic university and civic decline -- Vignette 2: Catherine Chisholm and the Manchester Babies' Hospital -- Three Zionists: Samuel Alexander, Chaim Weizmann and Lewis Namier |
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Shared friendship and divided politics: Patrick Blackett and Michael Polanyi in Manchester -- Vignette 3: Formed in Europe, shaped in Manchester: refugee engineer Professor Franz Koenigsberger -- W. Arthur Lewis and economic development: a Manchester story -- Tools versus minds: two Manchester computing traditions -- Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity -- Vignette 4: Shock city: Michel Butor and W. G. Sebald in Manchester -- Dorothy Emmet: 'for administrators whose hearts are with the anarchists, and anarchists who can have a heart for the administrators' |
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Gilbert Gadoffre: institutionalising cultural reproduction -- PART III -- The University in the post-industrial city -- Making an impact: Brian Cox, Jodrell Bank and changing perceptions of science in the twenty-first century -- Post-crash economics: liberal education through struggle against the curriculum -- Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role -- the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 -- Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Plates |
| Summary |
Publishing to mark the University of Manchester's bicentenary, this book is packed with compelling stories about the great scholars and scientists who have shaped the institution and helped to advance numerous fields of knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2024) |
| Subject |
University of Manchester -- History
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Learning and scholarship -- England -- Manchester
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SCIENCE / History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Stuart, editor
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| ISBN |
9781526176332 |
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1526176335 |
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9781526176318 |
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1526176319 |
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