R D Anderson

Biographic Data

ID156995
NAMER D Anderson
GIVEN NAMESR D
FAMILY NAMEAnderson
SIGNATUREANDERSON R D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0001-6120-3547
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS88
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT88
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1903
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979 . By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone

    Open AccessR D Anderson, Robert AndersonARTICLETwentieth Century British History2023

    Journal Article Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone Get access Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979. By Malcolm R. Petrie. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2022. x + 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-5698-2, £85.Who Runs Edinburgh? By David McCrone. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2022. xii + 299 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-9831-9 (paperback), £14.99. Robert Anderson Robert A…

  • Before and After Humboldt: European Universities Between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

    R D Anderson, Robert AndersonCHAPTERHistory of Higher Education Annual2020

    This chapter argues that the centralized, state-directed, utilitarian university was a powerful form, which survived more or less intact from the Enlightenment to the later nineteenth century. As public institutions of intense interest to governing elites, the history of European universities cannot be detached from the wider political, social, religious, and intellectual currents of the age. Fritz Ringer was surely right in seeing the 1860s as a…

  • German (Humboldtian) University Tradition, The

    Open AccessR D AndersonCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of…2020

  • The University of Edinburgh: An Illustrated History

    R D Anderson, Michael Lynch et al.BOOKUniversity of Edinburgh2019

    From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white, this is a book for everyone concerned with the university or the city of Edinburgh to read and enjoy. The authors consider the impacts of Reforma…

  • The Efficient Organisation of Public Intellect: Lyon Playfair and Scottish Education

    Open AccessR D Anderson, Robert AndersonARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2019

    Lyon Playfair was a champion of scientific and technical education who was professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University before serving as a Liberal M.P., initially for a Scottish university seat, from 1868 to 1892. This article looks mainly at his role in debates on the Education Act of 1872 and the bills which preceded it. Playfair sought to define the democratic traditions of Scottish education, especially emphasising the legacy of John Knox,…

  • When reliance on religion falters: Religious coping and post-traumatic stress symptoms in older adults after multiple disasters

    Katie E Stanko, Katie E Cherry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion, Spirituality…2018

    In 2005, Hurricane Katrina brought devastating losses to Gulf Coast communities. In this study, Katrina survivors answered open-ended questions about coping with hurricane-related challenges. The sample was partitioned into low and high scorers on a non-organizational religiosity scale. Content analyses revealed that low scorers described secular strategies, relied less on a church community in the aftermath of the storms, and exhibited active re…

  • The Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland

    R D Anderson, Robert Anderson et al.BOOKEdinburgh History of Education in…2015

    Leading historians discuss the distinctive and internationally significant history of Scottish education The distinctiveness and influence of Scotland’s educational institutions have played a significant role in the construction of national identity. This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with interests inc…

  • University History Teaching, National Identity and Unionism in Scotland, 1862–1914

    Open AccessR D Anderson, Robert AndersonARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2012Cited by: 4References: 2

    In the nineteenth century nationalism and historiography were closely linked, and the absence of separatist nationalism in Scotland had consequences for academic history. This article looks at the content of university history teaching, using sources such as lecture notes, textbooks, and inaugural lectures. The nature of the Scottish curriculum made the Ordinary survey courses more significant than specialised Honours teaching. While chairs of ge…

  • Centralisation and decentralisation in the training of elites in current France and Great-Britain

    Open AccessR D Anderson, Philippe SavoieARTICLEHistoire de l éducation2012

    Le contraste de la centralisation et de l'étatisation de l'enseignement français avec le pluralisme britannique est un lieu commun du XIXe siècle. Cet article examine la validité de cette opposition et les réalités de la situation britannique. En effet, malgré les différences historiques entre l'Angleterre et l'Écosse, la Grande Bretagne du XIXe siècle est un pays où la vie politique et la culture sont fortement centralisées. Cela se reflète, par…

  • University Politics: F. M. Cornford's Cambridge and his Advice to the Young Academic Politician – By Gordon Johnson

    Open AccessR D AndersonARTICLEHistory2010

  • Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France 1800-1867

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    Christina de Bellaigue's comparative study of girls’ schooling in England and France focuses on private schools for the middle classes, especially boarding schools. Using a very wide range of sources, she discusses the nature of schooling itself, the careers and ideals of the teachers, and the experiences, both social and intellectual, of the pupils. The comparative approach makes for many insights into the educational ideals of the two countries…

  • T. A. Cavanaugh, Double-Effect Reasoning: Doing Good and Avoiding Evil

    Open AccessR D AndersonARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry2009

  • Our Friend 'The Enemy: Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009Cited by: 3

    Thomas Weber here compares two élite universities, Oxford and Heidelberg, in the generation before 1914. This is a ‘transnational’ as well as a comparative study, studying interaction between the two countries, and asking questions about each university suggested by studying the other. Oxford's role as a nursery of the national élite is obvious, but Heidelberg's is less so, given the German practice of circulating between universities—Heidelberg,…

  • John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot By Stuart Wallace

    Open AccessR D AndersonARTICLEHistory2007

  • Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style, 1835–1924 ‐ By William Whyte

    Open AccessR D AndersonARTICLEHistory2007

  • Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2007Cited by: 4

    THIS is an odd book’, says William Clark in his first sentence. ‘It traces the development of the academic from medieval forms up to modern incarnations.’ Although there is no subtitle to indicate it, Clark's book is at heart a study of German universities, mainly in Protestant states, in the early modern period, and it does not fully live up to its author's ambitious claim. Many of the chapters have already appeared in earlier versions, usually …

  • A History of the University in Europe Vol. III: Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006Cited by: 4

    A History of the University in Europe. Vol. III: Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945). Edited by WALTER RÜEGG (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2004; pp. xxvi + 746. £90). IN 1982 the Conference of European University Rectors commissioned a four-volume history of European universities, with the idea that putting the history of universities in its social context would illuminate contemporary problems. The medieval and…

  • Die Universitat Greifswald und die deutsche Hochschullandschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert * 200 Jahre Wirtschafts- und Staatswissenschaften an der Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen: Leben und Werk …

    R Anderson, R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    The University of Greifswald, on the Baltic coast, is one of the smaller and less well-known German universities. For centuries it was under Swedish control, until Pomerania became part of Prussia in 1815. The collection of essays edited by Werner Buchhholz is the result of a colloquium which sought to place Greifswald within the historical development of the Prussian university ‘landscape’, and is therefore of more than local interest. It relate…

  • Humboldt auf Reisen? Die Rezeption des 'deutschen Universitatsmodells' in den franzosischen und britischen Reformdiskursen (1810-1870)

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2004

    Journal Article Humboldt auf Reisen? Die Rezeption des ‘deutschen Universitätsmodells’ in den französischen und britischen Reformdiskursen (1810–1870) Get access R. D. Anderson R. D. Anderson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 482, June 2004, Pages 728–730, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.482.728 Published: 01 June 2004

  • The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2002Cited by: 1

    1University of Edinburgh The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VII: Nineteenth‐Century Oxford, Part 2 M. G.BrockM. C.Curthoys OxfordClarendon P. 2000lv + 993£70

  • Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2002Cited by: 1

    1University of Edinburgh Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth‐Century Cambridge JonathanSmithChristopherStray WoodbridgeBoydell P. 2001229£50

  • France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Societ. By CHARLES Sowerwine (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. xxvi + 505. 45; pb. 14.99)

    R D AndersonARTICLEThe English Historical Review2001

    Journal Article France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Societ. By Charles Sowerwine (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; pp. xxvi + 505. 45; pb. £14.99) Get access R. D. Anderson R. D. Anderson University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 469, November 2001, Pages 1230–1231, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.469.1230 Published: 01 November 2001

  • Evans, In Defence of History

    Open AccessR D AndersonARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2000

  • Universities and Elites in Britain since 1800

    Sarah V Barnes, R D AndersonARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997

  • Education and the Scottish People, 1750-1918

    Joyce Senders Pedersen, R D AndersonARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997