Main entry:

Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015.

Title & Author:

Oxford and Cambridge / Christopher Brooke and Roger Highfield ; photographs by Wim Swaan.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Description:

xxi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-348) and index.
1. Cambridge -- 2. Oxford -- 3. The formation of the universities -- 4. The first Oxford colleges -- 5. The first Cambridge colleges -- 6. 1450-1550 : the colleges take over -- 7. 1550-1640 : Cranmer to Laud, the Anglican establishment at Cambridge and Oxford -- 8. From the age of Cromwell to the age of Newton -- 9. Oxford and Cambridge in the eighteenth century -- 10. Cambridge and Oxford 1800-1920 -- 11. Epilogue : the mid twentieth century.

Summary:

A lavishly illustrated history of Oxford and Cambridge with something on them as towns, but chiefly and primarily a history of the universities and colleges - their parallel but very different stories, compared and contrasted and the ties between their history and architecture emphasized.

ISBN:

0521301394
9780521301398

Subject:

University of Oxford History.
University of Cambridge History.
University of Oxford Pictorial works.
University of Cambridge Pictorial works.
University of Oxford.
University of Cambridge.
University of Oxford Histoire.
University of Cambridge Histoire.
Universiteiten.
Gebouwen.
Oxfordshire Oxford Universities: University of Oxford, to 1975
Cambridgeshire Cambridge Universities: University of Cambridge, to 1975

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Highfield, J. R. L. (John Roger Loxdale)
Swaan, Wim.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 45717
Call No.: ID:89-B504
Status: Available