History of Universities: Volume VIII: 1989
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:28th Dec '89
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Since 1988 (Volume VII) there have been two new sections, one devoted to research in progress and the other to an on-going bibliography of recent publications in the history of higher education throughout the world. Michael McVaugh and Luis Garcia Ballester: The Medical Faculty at Early Fourteenth-Century Lérida; Thomas E. Morrissey: The Art of Teaching and Learning Law: a Late Medieval Tract; Mario Rizzo: University, Administration, Taxation, and Society in Italy in the Sixteenth Century: the Case of Fiscal Exemptions for the University of Pavia; G. L. E. Turner: Experimental Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Oxford; Hans-Georg Schneider: The Threat to Authority in the Revolution of Chemistry; Notker Hammerstein: The Modern World, Sciences, Medicine, and Universities.
'There are ... in these admirable volumes useful conference reports and book reviews, as well as indexes, History of Universities has well and truly come of age, and the time is ripe for libraries in the history of science to snap up as many of the back-issues as they need to complete their holdings.' J.D. North, Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Sciences, Anno. 1992, Vol. 42, No. 123
ISBN: 9780198227243
Dimensions: 219mm x 145mm x 24mm
Weight: 508g
328 pages