Burnt Orange Britannia
Adventures in History and the Arts
Burnt Orange Britannia
Adventures in History and the Arts
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How did great academics come to love their subjects? How do they see their roles as educators? In this series of beautifully crafted autobiographies, "Burnt Orange Britannia" illuminates the forces that drive some of America's brightest minds. Through personal stories of remarkable ambition, resilience and achievement, top historians of the British experience at the University of Texas such as Elizabeth Fernea, former President of the Middle East Studies Association, and Toyin Falola a prolific author on Africa, reflect on their careers, students, and the sweeping changes in academic life that have changed the face of university education in the last 50 years. "Burnt Orange Britannia" is a candid and absorbing insight into life in the academic fast-stream, that will appeal to all those with an interest in history and the methods and philosophy of its teaching.
Table of Contents
Burnt Orange Britannia (2006)
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Wm Roger Louis
This I Can Remember, William Reynolds Braisted
Reflections on an Astronomical Life, David S. Evans
From Texas to the White House, Creekmore Fath
Much Ado about Oil, Sam Jamot Brown
Encounters with Imperialism, Elizabeth Fernea
Crossing Geographical and Cultural Borders and Arriving Finally at British Studies, Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth
Reminiscences: The Foreign Service, Third World Diplomacy, and the Cold War, Lewis Hoffacker
“The President Wants to See You”, Harry Middleton
My Life and Not So Hard Times, Sidney Monas
Life without British Studies Is Like…, Donald G. Davis Jr.
Beating a Path from Brooklyn to Austin, John P. Farrell
An Academic Odyssey: West Texas to South India, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.
Half a Century Is Not Enough!, Thomas M. Hatfield
An Accidental Publisher, Joanna Hitchcock
“Crooked like a Stick in Water”: A Fractured Autobiography, A.G. Hopkins
“Out of the Swing of the Sea”, Robert D. King
Hinges of Fate, Wm. Roger Louis
The Making of an Anglophile, Robert D. Mettlen
Growing up Bilingual and Other (Mis)Adventures in Negotiating Cultures, Gail Minault
Memories of a Past Still Sweet, Barbara Myers
The Four Lives of Robert Osborn, Robert Bruce Osborn
Past Imperfect-Or, Frightening the Horses, Kurth Sprague
“Corso e Recorso”: A Journey through Academe, Thomas F. Staley
Looking Back at Some Turns in the Road, John W. Velz
Growing Up in Nazi Germany and Other Adventures, Walter D. Wetzels
Starting Out in the Sixties, Robert H. Abzug
A Line at a Time, Thomas Cable
Money, Power, Politics, and Ambition, William H. Cunningham
Friendly Persuasion in the Academy, David V. Edwards
The Journey and the Quest, Betty Sue Flowers
A Determined Life in Our Times, Steve Isenberg
Jesuits, Lawyers, and Witches, Brian P. Levack
Perseverance Furthers: My Life as a Self-Consuming Artifact, Alessandra Lippucci
My Own Velvet Revolution, Carol Hanbery MacKay
A Case of Anglophilia and Partial Recovery: Being an Account of My Life, with Special Attention to the Influence of England upon My Education, Paul Woodruff
Burnt Orange Diaspora: A University of Texas British Studies Graduate Sallies (or Moseys) Forth, Sharon L. Arnoult
A “Catholic” Catholic Upbringing, Marian J. Barber
I've Followed the Muses, Richard Cleary
Footprints of the Ancestors, Toyin Falola
In Lieu of Writing a Life: Twenty-Six Views, Benjamin Gregg
Confessions of a Sanskritist Dean, Richard Lariviere
From Boston to Austin (Via the Road to Mandalay), Susan Napier
Against the Grain: On Finding My Voice in India, Martha Ann Selby
A Journey in the Study of Politics, Bartholomew H. Sparrow
My Life in Context: Freed Slaves on a Tobacco Plantation, Helena Woodard
Should I have Stayed at Home and Thought of Here?, Margherita Zanasi
British Romanticism and a Personal Paradox, Samuel Baker
Living in Two Worlds, Brigitte Bauer
Act One, Charlotte Canning
Texas Politics, English Literature, British History, George Scott Christian
Crossing against the Lights, Maeve Cooney
Desert Dreaming, Diana K. Davis
Public and Private Spheres, Neville Hoad
From the New England Woods to Global Affairs, Mark Atwood Lawrence
Shakespeare: Teaching Literature and Acting, James Loehlin
Discipline by Intellectual History, Tracie Matysik
Playing “Pensativa”: History and Music in Counterpoint, Karl Hagstrom Miller
My Homosexual Agenda, Lisa L. Moore
What's in a Name?, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Enough about Me, David Sosa
British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2005
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Wm Roger Louis
This I Can Remember, William Reynolds Braisted
Reflections on an Astronomical Life, David S. Evans
From Texas to the White House, Creekmore Fath
Much Ado about Oil, Sam Jamot Brown
Encounters with Imperialism, Elizabeth Fernea
Crossing Geographical and Cultural Borders and Arriving Finally at British Studies, Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth
Reminiscences: The Foreign Service, Third World Diplomacy, and the Cold War, Lewis Hoffacker
“The President Wants to See You”, Harry Middleton
My Life and Not So Hard Times, Sidney Monas
Life without British Studies Is Like…, Donald G. Davis Jr.
Beating a Path from Brooklyn to Austin, John P. Farrell
An Academic Odyssey: West Texas to South India, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.
Half a Century Is Not Enough!, Thomas M. Hatfield
An Accidental Publisher, Joanna Hitchcock
“Crooked like a Stick in Water”: A Fractured Autobiography, A.G. Hopkins
“Out of the Swing of the Sea”, Robert D. King
Hinges of Fate, Wm. Roger Louis
The Making of an Anglophile, Robert D. Mettlen
Growing up Bilingual and Other (Mis)Adventures in Negotiating Cultures, Gail Minault
Memories of a Past Still Sweet, Barbara Myers
The Four Lives of Robert Osborn, Robert Bruce Osborn
Past Imperfect-Or, Frightening the Horses, Kurth Sprague
“Corso e Recorso”: A Journey through Academe, Thomas F. Staley
Looking Back at Some Turns in the Road, John W. Velz
Growing Up in Nazi Germany and Other Adventures, Walter D. Wetzels
Starting Out in the Sixties, Robert H. Abzug
A Line at a Time, Thomas Cable
Money, Power, Politics, and Ambition, William H. Cunningham
Friendly Persuasion in the Academy, David V. Edwards
The Journey and the Quest, Betty Sue Flowers
A Determined Life in Our Times, Steve Isenberg
Jesuits, Lawyers, and Witches, Brian P. Levack
Perseverance Furthers: My Life as a Self-Consuming Artifact, Alessandra Lippucci
My Own Velvet Revolution, Carol Hanbery MacKay
A Case of Anglophilia and Partial Recovery: Being an Account of My Life, with Special Attention to the Influence of England upon My Education, Paul Woodruff
Burnt Orange Diaspora: A University of Texas British Studies Graduate Sallies (or Moseys) Forth, Sharon L. Arnoult
A “Catholic” Catholic Upbringing, Marian J. Barber
I've Followed the Muses, Richard Cleary
Footprints of the Ancestors, Toyin Falola
In Lieu of Writing a Life: Twenty-Six Views, Benjamin Gregg
Confessions of a Sanskritist Dean, Richard Lariviere
From Boston to Austin (Via the Road to Mandalay), Susan Napier
Against the Grain: On Finding My Voice in India, Martha Ann Selby
A Journey in the Study of Politics, Bartholomew H. Sparrow
My Life in Context: Freed Slaves on a Tobacco Plantation, Helena Woodard
Should I have Stayed at Home and Thought of Here?, Margherita Zanasi
British Romanticism and a Personal Paradox, Samuel Baker
Living in Two Worlds, Brigitte Bauer
Act One, Charlotte Canning
Texas Politics, English Literature, British History, George Scott Christian
Crossing against the Lights, Maeve Cooney
Desert Dreaming, Diana K. Davis
Public and Private Spheres, Neville Hoad
From the New England Woods to Global Affairs, Mark Atwood Lawrence
Shakespeare: Teaching Literature and Acting, James Loehlin
Discipline by Intellectual History, Tracie Matysik
Playing “Pensativa”: History and Music in Counterpoint, Karl Hagstrom Miller
My Homosexual Agenda, Lisa L. Moore
What's in a Name?, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Enough about Me, David Sosa
British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2005
Product details
| Published | 29 Mar 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781845111991 |
| Imprint | Harry Ransom Center |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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