Archiv für April 2015

The Academic Policy in France of Third and Fifth Republic and its limits. Science, democracy and elites

Christophe Charle
After the Franco-prussian war, the republican governments tried to reform higher learning in order to follow partially the Humboldtian model based on a link between research and teaching. Another aim was to enlarge the recruitment of elites to give birth to a meritocratic democracy inspired by the Republican and revolutionary tradition. These two aims were more or less pursued during the seventy years of Third Republic. But important lacks of radical decisions hindered to obtain a coherent transformation of the universities: centralization in Paris of the best students and professors, persistence of an elitist sector, the grandes écoles, inequality between faculties, backwardness in research investment due to the financial crisis of state finances after WWI. These lacunae explain the persistent unease of French higher Learning in the second half of XXth century.

Introduzione. Dalle criticità del presente a una rinnovata sensibilità storiografica

Arianna Arisi Rota, Paola Carlucci

The Funding of British Universities in Historical Perspective

Robert D. AndersonThis article traces the evolution of university finance in the United Kingdom, assessing the balance between student fees, state support, and endowment. Direct support by the state grew slowly in the nineteenth century, but by 1914 al…

The Italian Community in Portugal: between Revolution and Political Repression (1820-1828)

Carmine CassinoThe purpose of this study is to reconstruct and analyze individual and political episodes of the Italian community living in Portugal (with special regard to the community living in Lisbon) in the first half of the Nineteenth century. Th…

CCC volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

Miscellaneous Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp b1-b5Abstract

CCC volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

Miscellaneous Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp f1-f6Abstract

War of Words: Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe . Edited by Judith Devlin and Christoph Hendrik Müller. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 226. Cloth €60.00/$99.95. ISBN 978-1906359379.

Book Reviews Joe Perry, Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp 143-145Abstract

Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies . Edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. x + 385. Cloth $95.00. ISBN 978-0857452436.

Book Reviews Bernd Schaefer, Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp 142-143Abstract

The People’s Own Landscape: Nature, Tourism, and Dictatorship in East Germany . By Scott Moranda. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Pp. x + 229. Cloth $70.00. ISBN 978-0472119134.

Book Reviews Astrid M. Eckert, Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp 140-142Abstract

Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany . By David G. Tompkins. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 290. Paper $39.95. ISBN 978-1557536471.

Book Reviews David Imhoof, Central European History, Volume 48 Issue 01, pp 139-140Abstract