The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University

by Joseph Soares and Joseph A. Soares

Book Overview

This book studies Oxford University's transformation-and the political hazards for academics that ensued-when, after World War II, it changed from a private liberal-arts club with aristocratic pretensions into a state university heavily committed to the natural sciences, and with a middle-class constituency and a meritocratic ethos.

Despite these changes, the author shows that Oxford has not been able to elude its long-standing Brideshead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748195
• ISBN13: 9780804748193
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"