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Born in 1912 and educated at Oxford's Balliol College, Southern later studied in Paris and Munich before returning to Oxford shortly before World War II. His books include "The Making of the Middle Ages," which has been translated into several languages, "Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages," and "Medieval Humanism and Other Studies," which received the 1970 Royal Society of Literature Award...
...many Laborites regard Jenkins as a cultural snob with no taste for the rough give and take of either domestic or international politics. The son of a Welsh coal miner who became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Jenkins was a student at Oxford's Balliol College, where he took first honors in politics, philosophy and economics. He also acquired an upper-class "mandarin" accent, excellent French and a taste for claret and opera-none of which are especially valued by the party's old guard...
Teaching Thucydides. The son of a social worker (his mother was one of the first women in England to earn a university degree), Toynbee studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, and he was teaching Thucydides there when the first World War broke out. Unfit for the military because of a bout of dysentery, Toynbee spent the war working in the Foreign Office, then roamed the Middle East, and eventually taught at the University of London. He thought he would write his study of history in one long summer vacation. He published the first three volumes in 1934, reached...
...tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective fields--and superbly express their political biases in the context of their respective disciplines. It is imperative for blacks to attempt to do the same if knowledge is to have any effect on the black struggle...
...idealism to work in the U.S. In his senior year at Berkeley, he earned the highest grade-point average (3.9) in the College of Letters and Science?then decided that he had become enslaved to "American fanaticism" about achievement. On a Fulbright scholarship at Oxford's Balliol College, he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on The History of St. Anselm's Theology of the Redemption in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. But his discontent with the U.S. deepened...