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OverviewA bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history. The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England's civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas. This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who's who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stuart JonesPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9781526176325ISBN 10: 1526176327 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 03 September 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction - Stuart Jones Part I: Academy and community in the nineteeth-century city - Stuart Jones 1 The mechanics’ institutes and the spread of ‘useful knowledge’ – Joanna Bourke Vignette 1: The founders of the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution – Natalie Zacek 2 Heidelberg in Cottonopolis: how Roscoe brought German ideas to Manchester - Peter J.T. Morris and Peter Reed 3 James Bryce’s Manchester: the politics of the remaking of Owens College, 1865-75 – Stuart Jones 4 Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library – Elizabeth Gow 5 William Boyd Dawkins: race, geology and the deep past in Manchester, 1869-1929 – Chris Manias 6 Ancoats and lab coats: Sheridan Delépine and municipal public health – Michael Worboys 7 ‘In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers’: Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper and the Manchester University Settlement in Ancoats, 1896-1907 – John McAuliffe Part II: Civic university and civic decline – Stuart Jones Vignette 2: Catherine Chisholm and the Manchester Babies’ Hospital – Peter Mohr with Stuart Jones 8 Three Zionists: Samuel Alexander, Chaim Weizmann and Lewis Namier – David Hayton 9 Shared friendship and divided politics: Patrick Blackett and Michael Polanyi in Manchester – Mary Jo Nye Vignette 3: Formed in Europe, shaped in Manchester: refugee engineer, Professor Franz Koenigsberger – Jonathan Aylen 10 William Arthur Lewis and economic development: a Manchester story – Gerardo Serra 11 Tools versus minds: two Manchester computing traditions – James Sumner 12 Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity – Katherine Ambler Vignette 4: Shock City: Michel Butor and W.G. Sebald in Manchester – Catherine Annabel 13 Dorothy Emmet: ‘for administrators whose hearts are with the anarchists, and anarchists who can have a heart for the administrators’ - Rachael Wiseman 14 Gilbert Gadoffre: institutionalising cultural reproduction – Derek Robbins Part III: The University in the post-industrial city – Stuart Jones 15 Making an impact: Brian Cox, Jodrell Bank and changing perceptions of science in the twenty-first century – Matthew Cobb 16 Post-crash economics: liberal education through struggle against the curriculum – Joe Earle, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams 17 Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role – the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 - Luke Georghiou Epilogue – Dame Nancy Rothwell Index -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationStuart Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century intellectual history and political thought, and his books include Victorian Political Thought and Intellect and Character in Victorian England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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