The Modern University and its Discontents: The Fate of Newman's Legacies in Britain and America

1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place' 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such' 4. Failure 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education Interlude: General introduction to chapters six and seven 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval' 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest Index.