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The School of Oriental and African Studies
Ian Brown
其他書名
Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning
出版Cambridge University Press, 2016-07-21
主題Education / Schools / Levels / HigherEducation / Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Modern / 21st CenturyPolitical Science / History & Theory
ISBN11071644279781107164420
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_qFODAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would come to transcend this function to become a world centre of scholarship and learning, in many important ways challenging that imperial origin. Drawing on the School's own extensive administrative records, on interviews with current and past staff, and on the records of government departments, Ian Brown explores the work of the School over its first century. He considers the expansion in the School's configuration of studies from the initial focus on languages, its changing relationships with government, and the major contributions that have been made by the School to scholarly and public understandings of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.