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Author:   Shula Marks (Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies London; Fellow of the British Academy) ,  Paul Weindling (, Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University) ,  Laura Wintour (, Zimbabwe Programme Manager, CARA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   169
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9780197264812

ISBN 10:   0197264816
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1. FOUNDERS AND FIRSTCOMERS 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration Lucia Muñoz: Postscript

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A fascinating history of refugee scholars. In Defence of Learning tells a complicated, multi-faceted story ... adds much to our understanding of intellectual refugees, past and present. Mira Siegelberg, History Workshop Journal

A fascinating history of refugee scholars.

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Professor Shula Marks: Born in Cape Town, Shula Marks was formerly Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, and is now Emeritus Professor of Southern African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Honorary Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, including most recently chapters in the New Cambridge History of South Africa, vol. 2 (forthcoming), and has supervised some fifty doctoral students. She is currently researching a book on the history of social medicine. She was Chair of the Society for the Protection and Learning/Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and is still a member of CARA's Council.

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