The University of Edinburgh : : An Illustrated History / / Nicholas Phillipson, Robert D. Anderson, Michael Lynch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Robert D.,; Lynch, Michael,; Phillipson, Nicholas,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Robert D.,; Lynch, Michael,; O'Shea, Timothy,; Phillipson, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white, this is a book for everyone concerned with the university or the city of Edinburgh to read and enjoy.The authors consider the impacts of Reformation, Union with England, Enlightenment, and scientific and industrial revolutions. They show the university rising to the challenge of competition from Europe, describe the great periods of expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and chart the university's building from Old College to George Square. They explore its tense relationship with the city, explore the histories of student outrage and unrest, recall the days when blasphemy could be punished by death, and reveal that the university's department of anatomy once supported a thriving trade in body-snatching. Upheaval and crisis, triumph and achievement succeed each other by turns in a story that is entertaining, intriguing and surprising - and always interesting.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Part I The Creation of a College -- PART II The Making of an Enlightened University -- PART III The Construction of a Modern University -- 1 Age of Reform -- 2 The Growth of Corporate Life -- 3 Age of Stability -- 4 Age of Expansion -- Select Bibliography -- Index