Redesigning Cambridge
Sheldon Rothblatt, 5 March 1981
Cambridge before Darwin: The Ideal of a Liberal Education 1800-1860
by Martha McMackinGarland.
Cambridge, 196 pp., £14.50, November 1980,0 521 23319 4 Show More
by Martha McMackinGarland.
Cambridge, 196 pp., £14.50, November 1980,
“... college histories, maligned as house history, contain suggestive hints and surprises. Dr Martha Garland’s new book rides gracefully on some of the scholarship of the last twenty years. Although she has been busy in Cambridge archives and the ‘Cam Collection’, her book is largely deuteronomic. It is not adventuresome and not original, but a ... ”