Postwar university expansion created new positions in previously neglected fields like Oriental studies

Evidence

The immediate post-war period was a good time for young scholars just starting or re-starting their careers—a time of rapid and extensive development in the universities, which faced a double challenge: a five-year backlog of students who had gone straight from high school to the armed forces and wished to resume their academic education, and a skeletal academic apparatus, in urgent need of expansion and development to meet the demands of a new age. One of the answers to this demand was the creation of new teaching positions in previously neglected subjects, notably in the field of Oriental and African studies. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 78

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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