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This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge.

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Author:   M. Ash ,  J. Surman
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780230289871

ISBN 10:   0230289878
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   24 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures The Authors The Nationalisation of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-century Central Europe: An introduction; M.G.Ash & J.Surman Science and its Publics. Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe; J.Surman 'Staatsnation', 'Kulturnation', 'Nationalstaat'. The Role of National Politics in the Advancement of Science and Scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938; J.Feichtinger 'National Agreement' as Culture and Practice: The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849-1867); M.Klemun Scientific Nationalism: A Historical Approach to Nature in Late Nineteenth-century Hungary; G.Palló Acts of Creation: The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary; T.Frank Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech Science: Chemists in the Czech National Enlightenment; S.Štrbánová Fault Lines and Borderlands: Earthquake Spotting in Imperial Austria; D.R.Coen Nationalising Eugenics: The Hungarian Public Debate of 1910-1911; M.Turda The Politics of Fin-de-siècle Anatomy; T.Buklijas Index

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TATJANA BUKLIJAS Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand DEBORAH R. COEN Assistant Professor, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA JOHANNES FEICHTINGER Senior Research Associate at the Commission for Cultural Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria TIBOR FRANK Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary MARIANNE KLEMUN Associate Professor and member of the Working Group in History of Science, Department of History and since 2006 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria GÁBOR PALLÓ Senior research fellow in the Institute for Research Organization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary SO?A TRBÁ?OVÁ Associate Professor, Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, current President of the European Science Foundation and Effective Member of the International Academy of History of Science, Prague MARIUS TURDA Reader in 20th Century Eastern and Central European Biomedicine and Deputy Director, The Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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