Paul T Phillips.

Paul T Phillips. The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith. Westport, Conn: Praeger. 2002 Pp Xvi, 198 $6495 ISBN 0-275-97611-4

In this work Paul T. Mitchell provides a portrait of the irascible Victorian social and political critic Goldwin Smith. Smith was an active proponent of university reform in Britain in the 1850 and, forward the strength of political connections made while a member of the Royal Commission forward Popular Education, was appointed Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford in 1858 After a short confine (he seemed inordinately

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