The Enlightenment in the University of Salamanca

George Milton Addy (1927- )

Verlag: Duke University Press, Durham, 1966

Beschreibung

xxi+410 pages with tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with beige label to spine in original pictorial jacket. From the library of Professor Donald Worcester. First edition. In this study of the University of Salamanca during the critical years from 1740 to 1808, when the Enlightenment had its maximum impact in Spain, the author shows that far from being complacent or resistant to all change, by the 1760's most Salamancan professors were well aware that the University badly needed reform. The accumulated abuses of vested interests, found especially in colleges and convents associated with the University, and general administrative laxity convinced even the intellectually conservative that institutional renovation was necessary. There also existed a small but active and influential group, mainly from the faculties of medicine and arts, that favored not only administrative but radical intellectual reform. This group appealed to Madrid for assistance and set in motion the University plan of studies of 1771 and a general University reform. Donald Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947. From 1947 until 1963 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He then was a professor at Texas Christian University and history department chair. From 1960 until 1965 he was managing editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review. Worcester's view that history is made of complexities, not dualities, is seen as foundational for much of the understanding by later scholars of Southwest United States history. Condition: Dr Worcester's name on front end paper. Jacket corners lightly chipped, spine ends rubbed else a better than very good copy in a near fine jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BOOKS005681

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Titel: The Enlightenment in the University of ...

Verlag: Duke University Press, Durham

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition