CHRIST'S: A CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE OVER FIVE CENTURIES

REYNOLDS, David (Ed.), John Burrow, David Cannadine, Barrie Dobson, Roy Porter, Simon Schama, Quentin Skinner, Barry Supple Et Al.

ISBN 10: 0333989880 / ISBN 13: 9780333989883

Edité par Macmillan, London, 2005

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8vo. pp xvi, 265, [1]. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's black buckram lettered in gilt at spine. Some colour illustrations at centre.ISBN: 0333989880 Very good, pages a little tanned, small bump at corner of front board. In very good plus dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: CHRIST'S: A CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE OVER FIVE CENTURIES
• Éditeur: Macmillan, London
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0333989880
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780333989883
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

Informed but readable, incisive and entertaining, this is a revealing history of a very British institution by some of the leading historians of our era. The list of contributors includes Simon Schama, David Cannadine, Roy Porter and Linda Colley.

In 2005 Christ's college Cambridge is celebrating its quincentenary. It was founded by a remarkable woman – the mother of a King. Its alumni include two of the intellectual giants of the West, Milton and Darwin. And it has been immortally caricatured in one of the most famous university novels of the twentieth century, The Masters by C.P. Snow. In recent years it has also nurtured a succession of outstanding historians, many of them pupils or protégés of Sir John Plumb. These chapters have been written by some of those historians – all scholars of distinction, some of them household names. Their distinctive snapshots of Christ’s at different moments in time also reveal something of the rich variety of historical writing today – religious and intellectual history, biography, economics and the history of science.

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David Reynolds is a fellow of Christ's College and author of many historical works including From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War (2001)