Lexington Books
Pages: 286
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-4020-9 • Hardback • October 2016 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-4985-4021-6 • eBook • October 2016 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
Charles E. McClelland is professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico.
Chapter 1: From the Ashes of Defeat to the Needs of a New Empire
Chapter 2: “The Intellectual Bodyguard”: The Professors of Friedrich Wilhelm University
Chapter 3: State and University: Finance, Control and Academic Freedom
Chapter 4: The Structural Model “Modern Research University” in National and International Comparison
Chapter 5: Students’ Relationships to Professors, Finances, and the Social Order
Chapter 6: Minorities, Women, Privilege, and Subculture
Chapter 7: The Public Sphere and Political Culture
Chapter 8: The University in Public Opinion, Issues and Movements of the Day
Chapter 9: The University and World War I: Preparing, Fighting, and Struggling to Recover
Chapter 10: A Tarnished Model among World Adaptors
Berlin, the Mother of All Research Universities, 1860–1918, should be read or consulted by all historians of science and by historians of higher education, in Germany and beyond.— Isis
Given the iconic significance of this university, referenced in the book’s title, the study recommends itself not only to the small community of university historians but also to scholars more broadly interested in the politics and social history of academic institutions and professions. . . . This book presents an informative. . . overview of the social and political history of Germany’s leading university at the height of its significance and fame.
— Journal of Modern History
These two recent university histories [Berlin and Nottingham: A History of Britain’s Global University by John Beckett] both offer a mine of useful information and key analyses of university development. . . . McClelland paints a detailed picture of the hierarchy of academic staff in the Berlin system. . . . These two books, both well written. . . merit deep attention by historians, especially those of higher education.
— History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society
Charles E. McClelland has, for the first time, exhaustively analyzed the heyday of Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University (1860 to 1914) and made the causes of its rise to world leadership both comprehensible to an English-speaking audience and relevant to its emulators abroad, especially in America. This book not only sheds new light on the history of science and social history, but embeds both in the political context in which professors and students acted.— Elmar Tenorth, Humboldt University of Berlin
This is a careful and significant history written by a mature scholar that shows how the world’s first research university took shape and evolved over time. It is also, deliberately and appropriately, an effort to use history to improve contemporary debate, where the achievements of higher education are too often belittled. The book deserves wide attention in both of its domains.— Peter N. Stearns