In defence of learning
| Titel: | In defence of learning : the plight, persecution and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s / ed. by Shula Marks ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011 |
| Umfang: | XX, 320 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 169 |
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| ISBN: | 9780197264812 |
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- List of Tables
- p. ix
- Notes on Contributors
- p. xi
- Acknowledgements
- p. xvii
- Foreword
- p. xix
- Sir John Ashworth
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Part 1
- Founders and Firstcomers
- 1
- 'Protests Butter No Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938
- p. 29
- 2
- A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA
- p. 45
- 3
- From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964
- p. 59
- 4
- Refugee Scientists in a New Environment
- p. 77
- 5
- Max Perutz and the SPSL
- p. 87
- Part 2
- Tess-The Linchpin
- 6
- Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
- p. 101
- 7
- Eva and Esther
- p. 117
- Part 3
- Associates and Allies
- 8
- 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft
- p. 127
- 9
- Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945
- p. 143
- 10
- In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women
- p. 161
- 11
- Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice
- p. 177
- Part 4
- Reversing the Gaze
- 12
- Austrian Refugee Social Scientists
- p. 193
- 13
- Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010
- p. 211
- 14
- Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War
- p. 225
- 15
- Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989
- p. 239
- 16
- 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980
- p. 257
- 17
- Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration
- p. 281
- Postscript
- Index
- p. 291
