Elite, History - Study & Teaching, Higher Education - General & Miscellaneous, Great Britain Historiography, 20th Century British History - General & Miscellaneous, Teaching - History, 19th Century British History - Victorian Era (1837-1901), College Educ
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Overview
This book is an intellectual and cultural account of the growth of history as an undergraduate discipline at Oxford and Cambridge in the nineteenth century. History, the familiar centre of a broad Victorian consensus about God, country and good, provided the most consistent moral panorama able to satisfy a variety of intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic needs. The book argues that history was taught in English universities in generally Whiggish ways to develop a sense of national duty and loyalty in students. These students were all part of an elite, and most were destined for the civil service or for other professional or elite business careers. The author treats the cultural and political role of history and history-teaching in much greater depth and with greater incisiveness than has ever been done before, and in so doing, marshals together a great deal of new evidence.Book Details
Published
March 31, 1995
Publisher
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1994.
Pages
324
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780804723831