Research Catalog

Title

The shop : the University of Melbourne, 1850-1939 / R.J.W. Selleck.

Author

Selleck, R. J. W. (Richard Joseph Wheeler), 1934-

Publication

Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2003.

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Description

xx, 855 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Amid the excitement and disorder of the gold rush, Melbourne's middle class created the University of Melbourne - known to many generations as 'The Shop' - to serve the interests of its sons. The foundation professors were well acquainted with the ancient universities of England and Ireland, but they swiftly realised that colonial society had different needs and visions." "Richard Selleck adroitly places the university in its historical and political context. He examines its relation to government, the press and the school system, and its mutually self-serving links with the professions such as law, medicine, engineering and teaching. He analyses the contemporary intellectual debates: the significance of evolution and political economy, the power and promise of science, the challenge to religious belief, the status of classical education, the growth of socialism, the equivocal liberation of women, the still more equivocal treatment of indigenous people, the birth of a research university, the vagaries of Empire, and the precariousness of academic freedom." "This book challenges those who work or study in universities today, and those who fund them, to measure themselves against their predecessors. The inescapable conclusion is that most of the issues that convulsed the University of Melbourne in its formative decades are still alive and troublesome today."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

University of Melbourne, 1850-1939

Subject

• University of Melbourne > History > 19th century
• University of Melbourne > History > 20th century
• 1800-1999
• Melbourne (Vic.) > History > 19th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > History > 20th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > Social conditions > 19th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > Social conditions > 20th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Melbourne (Vic.) > Intellectual life > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 790-824) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Ideas of a University, 1850-54 -- 2. A University, Its Community, and the Community, 1855-64 -- 3. The Gathering of Forces, 1865-81 -- 4. Growth and Disorder, 1882-86 -- 5. 'Fractious Children'?: Students in the 1880s -- 6. Science and Government, 1887-92 -- 7. Depression, 1893-1901 -- 8. Money, the State and Power, 1902-13 -- 9. War -- and a Kind of Peace, 1914-23 -- 10. Leaving the Shop, 1924-39.

ISBN

0522850510

OCLC

• 51914188
• SCSB-12692424

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Harvard Library