Universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850-1939
The book explores the interconnected academic networks within the British settler world during the era of Victorian globalization. Utilizing extensive archival research, it redefines the intellectual landscapes of Britain and its empire from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, highlighting the collaboration and exchange of ideas among scholars across these regions.
Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .
"In 1926, New York University's Floating University sailed 500 American collegians around the globe, hoping to make them better citizens of the world and demonstrate a new educational model. It didn't go well. Tamson Pietsch here excavates a rich picture of this folly, its origins, and the insights it affords into an America that was being defined increasingly by both imperialism and the professionalization of higher education. For Pietsch, the voyage traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to somehow model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"--