Mark O'Brien
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719096136
- eISBN:
- 9781526121004
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096136.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter examines the 1950s, a decade of rancorous division among journalists. Alongside economic depression and political instability and against the backdrop of the Cold War came church-fuelled ...
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This chapter examines the 1950s, a decade of rancorous division among journalists. Alongside economic depression and political instability and against the backdrop of the Cold War came church-fuelled allegations of communism within Dublin journalism. The red-scare that followed exposed deep divisions within the formally untied ranks of the union and the declaration of a republic in 1949 led some journalists to object to being represented by a London-based trade union. Thus emerged the short-lived, but extremely divisive, Guild of Irish Journalists. It was, in some respects, a last attempt by political parties and the church to re-assert control over journalists in Ireland.Less
This chapter examines the 1950s, a decade of rancorous division among journalists. Alongside economic depression and political instability and against the backdrop of the Cold War came church-fuelled allegations of communism within Dublin journalism. The red-scare that followed exposed deep divisions within the formally untied ranks of the union and the declaration of a republic in 1949 led some journalists to object to being represented by a London-based trade union. Thus emerged the short-lived, but extremely divisive, Guild of Irish Journalists. It was, in some respects, a last attempt by political parties and the church to re-assert control over journalists in Ireland.
W. Bruce Leslie
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198779919
- eISBN:
- 9780191825927
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779919.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter explores the history and development of the American universities, from their foundation up to World War II. It draws from Roger Geiger's The History of American Higher Education: ...
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This chapter explores the history and development of the American universities, from their foundation up to World War II. It draws from Roger Geiger's The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (2015). He anchors his account of the first century in two premises. First, the founders carried with them the academic traditions of arguably the most literate society in the world: Oxford and Cambridge. Second, the English heritage contained the dynamic interaction of three goals: culture, careers, and knowledge. Geiger concludes his four-century narrative with what he calls ‘The Standard American University’. He argues that the 1920s and 1930s brought more fundamental change underwritten by unprecedented support for a coterie of elite institutions. The resulting standardisation created a true system for the first time and it was one poised to take advantage of the opportunities WWII and the post-war world offered.Less
This chapter explores the history and development of the American universities, from their foundation up to World War II. It draws from Roger Geiger's The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (2015). He anchors his account of the first century in two premises. First, the founders carried with them the academic traditions of arguably the most literate society in the world: Oxford and Cambridge. Second, the English heritage contained the dynamic interaction of three goals: culture, careers, and knowledge. Geiger concludes his four-century narrative with what he calls ‘The Standard American University’. He argues that the 1920s and 1930s brought more fundamental change underwritten by unprecedented support for a coterie of elite institutions. The resulting standardisation created a true system for the first time and it was one poised to take advantage of the opportunities WWII and the post-war world offered.
