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Taking Up the Torch
Edward Timms
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Description for Taking Up the Torch
Hardcover. Introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. This title documents the formative experiences of a scholar who was to become a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; 1DFG; BG; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 678.
This is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity -- how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the University of Sussex; and objectivity -- a book that introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. It documents the formative experiences of a scholar who was to become a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics. The aim is to relate the shaping of ... Read more
This is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity -- how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the University of Sussex; and objectivity -- a book that introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. It documents the formative experiences of a scholar who was to become a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics. The aim is to relate the shaping of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193850
SKU
V9781845193850
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Ref
99-50
About Edward Timms
Edward Timms was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to scholarship and in 2008 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences.
Reviews for Taking Up the Torch
"The chapter on Sussex University in the early 1960s is a beautifully written, movingly personal account of those heady days which almost hurt me to read
so much of it was doomed."
John Roehl, the distinguished historian and biographer of Kaiser Wilhelm II (CUP)
so much of it was doomed."
John Roehl, the distinguished historian and biographer of Kaiser Wilhelm II (CUP)