The life and times of J. Neville Keynes a beacon in the tempest
1. Origins -- 2. The undergraduate experience -- 3. College fellow in a changing university -- 4. Bachelor don at large -- 5. Career of a moral scientist -- 6. Late-Victorian family life -- 7. Academic administration -- 8. Faculty conflicts and tripos reform -- 9. Post-Victorian academic family -- 1...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
Edward Elgar Pub
2001
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Origins -- 2. The undergraduate experience -- 3. College fellow in a changing university -- 4. Bachelor don at large -- 5. Career of a moral scientist -- 6. Late-Victorian family life -- 7. Academic administration -- 8. Faculty conflicts and tripos reform -- 9. Post-Victorian academic family -- 10. The impact of war -- 11. Beacon in retirement This fascinating biography of an economist who was also a logician and administrator, is based mainly upon his virtually continuous diary. The diary provides an intimate commentary on the academic developments and conflicts in which he was closely involved as well as on his life as undergraduate, bachelor and family man |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 315 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9781781009970 9781840645347 1840645342 |