Synopses & Reviews
How did universities come to be central players in the prosecution of the First World War? The war, defined for many by battlefield stalemate and trench warfare, brought ideas into the front line for the first time, as scholars and scholarship worked with national governments to provide answers to the many challenging questions it posed. Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, The University at War, 1914-25 examines how universities were mobilized in wartime and the ethical challenges which this in turn posed for educational institutions. The wartime experiences of academia helped shape many modern educational practices and systems of higher education and saw scholars emerge from their 'ivory towers' in the guise of experts.
Synopsis
Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World War I, and the many consequences of this for higher education which have lasted almost a century.
About the Author
Dr. Tomás Irish is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: MOBILIZING FOR WAR
1. The University Goes to War
2. The Application of Specialist Knowledge
3. War at the University
PART II: THE CONSEQUENCES OF MOBILIZATION
4. Toward Cultural Alliance
5. The Organizational Challenges of War
6. Fashioning an Expert Peace
PART III: LEGACY
7. Returning to Normal?
8. Internationalism after the War, 1918-25
Conclusion
Bibliography