1st Edition

International Dictionary of University Histories

Edited By Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield Copyright 1998

    Modeled on Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places , the International Dictionary of University Histories provides basic information on 200 institutions--location, description, sources of further information--followed by an extensive 3000 to 5000 word essay on each university's history. Entries on each university conclude with a Further Reading list, and most entries are illustrated. Coverage is world-wide, and entries range from the great medieval institutions (Oxford, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne) to the great historic universities of the United States, to the newer universities of Australia and South Africa, to the lesser-known universities of India, China, and Japan. More than 200 writers, researchers and archival departments of the universities themselves have contributed to the Dictionary . Entries include those universities with the most fascinating histories and those that have played important roles in the development of their own countries and in the furtherance of world scholarship.

    Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark); Aarhus University (Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark); Al-Azhar University (Cairo, Egypt); Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany); Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India); Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Antioch University (Yellow Springs, Ohio, U.S.A.); Atlanta University Center (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.); Barnard College (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Beijing University (Beijing, China); Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah, U.S.A.); Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.); Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, U.S.A.); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.); Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic); Chinese University of Hong Kong (New Territories, Hong Kong); The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.); City University of New York (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Claremont Colleges (Claremont, California, U.S.A.); College of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.); Columbia University (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain); Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa, U.S.A.); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.); Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.); Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.); Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany); École Nationale D'Administration (Paris, France); École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France); École Polytechnique (Paris, France); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.); Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland); Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil); Free University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Georgetown University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Georgia Augustus University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany); Guilford College (Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.); Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel); Howard University (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); Humboldt University (Berlin, Gemany); Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.); Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi, India); Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.); Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, India); Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland); Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.); Keio University (Tokyo, Japan); Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan); Laval University (Quebec, Canada); Leipzig University (Leipzig, Germany); Loránd Eötvös University (Budapest, Hungary); Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Munich, Germany); Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Wittenberg, Germany); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); McGill University (Montreal, Canada); Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia); National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico); National University of Ireland (Republic of Ireland); National University of San Marcos (Lima, Peru); New School for Social Research (New York, New York, U.S.A.); New York University (New York, New York, U.S.A.); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.); Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A.); Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.); Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.); Philipps University of Marburg (Marburg an der Lahn, Germany); Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.); Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.); Radcliffe College (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Reed College (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.); Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.); Ruprecht Karls University (Heidelberg, Germany); Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.); St. John's College (Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.); Seoul National University (Seoul, Republic of Korea); Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Stanford University (Stanford, California, U.S.A.); State University of New York (New York, U.S.A.); Strasbourg University (Strasbourg, France); Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India); Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel); Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.); United States Military Academy at West Point (West Point, New York, U.S.A.); United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.); University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland); University of Aix-Marseille (Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, France); University of Alcalá De Henares (Alcalá De Henares, Spain); University of Arizona (Tyicson, Arizona, U.S.A.); University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain); University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France); University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina); University of California (California, U.S.A.); University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England); University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand); University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa); University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.); University of Chile (Santiago, Chile); University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal); University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany); University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark); University of Dublin Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland); University of Durham (Durham, England); University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland); University of Florence (Florence, Italy); University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland); University of Granada (Granada, Spain); University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.); University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A); University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands); University of London (London, England); University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium); University of Manchester (Manchester, England); University of Melbourne (Parkville, Australia); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.); University of Minnesota (Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.); University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.); University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France); University of Mumbai (Bombay) (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India); University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.); University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A.); University of Orléans (Orléans, France); University of Oxford (Oxfordshire, England); University of Paris (Paris, France); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.); University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy); University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, U.S.A.); University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland); University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain); University of Seville (Seville, Spain); University of Siena (Siena, Italy); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.); University of Sydney (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia); University of Texas System (Texas, U.S.A); University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.A.); University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa); University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan); University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain); University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria); University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.); University of Wales (Cardiff, Wales); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.); University of Wisconsin (Wisconsin, U.S.A.); Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.); Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A.); Visva-Bharati University (Santiniketan, West Bengal, India); Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A.); Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.); Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel); Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Willamette University (Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.); Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.)

    Biography

    Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield

    "The book does a good job of giving historical details on a wide variety of universities." -- Choice
    "International Dictionary of University Histories is a good read as well as a reference book... The essays are informative and interesting, and the photographs could make you apply immediately as an exchange students." -- Reference & User Services Quarterly