A History of Foreign Students in Britain
A History of Foreign Students in Britain

Author: H. Perraton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1137294957

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Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.

Lost Libraries
Lost Libraries

Author: J. Raven

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-01-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0230524257

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This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.