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Oxford and Cambridge

Title
Oxford and Cambridge / Christopher Brooke and Roger Highfield ; photographs by Wim Swaan.
Author
Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Highfield, J. R. L. (John Roger Loxdale)
  • Swaan, Wim.
Description
xxi, 367 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
A lavishly illustrated history of Oxford and Cambridge with something on them as towns, but chiefly and primarily a history of the universities and colleges - their parallel but very different stories, compared and contrasted and the ties between their history and architecture emphasized.
Subject
  • University of Oxford > History
  • University of Cambridge > History
  • University of Oxford > Pictorial works
  • University of Cambridge > Pictorial works
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Oxford
  • Universiteiten
  • Gebouwen
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works.
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 336-348.
Contents
1. Cambridge -- 2. Oxford -- 3. The formation of the universities -- 4. The first Oxford colleges -- 5. The first Cambridge colleges -- 6. 1450-1550 : the colleges take over -- 7. 1550-1640 : Cranmer to Laud, the Anglican establishment at Cambridge and Oxford -- 8. From the age of Cromwell to the age of Newton -- 9. Oxford and Cambridge in the eighteenth century -- 10. Cambridge and Oxford 1800-1920 -- 11. Epilogue : the mid twentieth century.
ISBN
  • 0521301394
  • 9780521301398
LCCN
87010280
OCLC
  • ocm15521323
  • 15521323
  • SCSB-1199048
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library