University Jubilees and University History Writing : A Challenging Relationship.

Intro -- University Jubilees and University History Writing: A Challenging Relationship -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: University History Writing: More than a History of Jubilees? -- PART 1: University History Writing as Part of the Jubilee -- 2 Two Great Anniversaries, Two Lost Opportunities: Charles University in Prague, 1848 and 1948 -- 3 The Royal Frederik University in Kristiania in 1911: Intellectual Beacon of the North - or "North Germanic" Provincial University? -- 4 Commitment, Reserve and Self-Assertion: The Celebration of Patriotic Anniversaries in Russian and German Universities 1912/13 -- 5 Academic Ceremonies and Celebrations at the Romanian University of Cluj 1919-2009 -- PART 2: University History Writing on the Occasion of a Jubilee -- 6 1968 as a Turning Point in Trondheim's University History -- 7 University History Research at the University of Leipzig -- Part 3: University History Writing Beyond the Jubilee -- 8 The Humboldtian Tradition: The German University Transformed, 1800-1945 -- 9 French Academia in a Prosopographic Perspective: A Collaborative Joint Project -- 10 University History as Part of the History of Education -- Index.

Through various case studies, this book shows the continuity of the close relationship between jubilees and university historiography and the impact of this interaction on the jubilee publications and academic heritage. Yet it also goes beyond the jubilee by presenting three other ways of writing university history.

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