The nationalization of scientific knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918 / edited by Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ash, Mitchell G.

Surman, Jan, 1983-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Europe, Central--History--19th century.

Science and state.

Science and state--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Habsburg, House of.

Nationalism--Europe, Central--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Europe, Central--History--20th century.

Politics and government.

Intellectual life.

History.

Europe, Central--Intellectual life.

Europe, Central.

Europe, Central--Politics and government--19th century.

Europe, Central--Politics and government--20th century.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This volume challenges the common belief that scientific knowledge is international Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy confronted the problem of simultaneously nationalizing and internationalizing their knowledge in a multinational empire during the 'age of nationalism'. The case studies go beyond traditional emphasis on history, ethnology or other 'national' disciplines, ranging from chemistry and physics to natural history, geology, seismology, surgery, linguistics and eugenics, focusing inter alia on scientific terminology in various national languages, supranational networks of observation or data gathering, language issues in science education, and research practices in cross-national comparison.

Jacket image: Professors and other important figures for the sciences and humanities in the Habsburg Empire: A collage assembled by Jan Surman and superimposed on an outline map of the monarchy. See p. viii for identification of the portraits. The map is © Andrea Komlosy (2003). Used by permission. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Nationalisation of Scientific Knowledge in nineteenth-century Central Europe : An introduction Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman

Science and its publics : Internationality and national languages in Central Europe / Jan Surman

"Staatsnation," "Kulturnation," "Nationalstaat" : The role of national politics in the advancement of science and scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938 / Johannes Feichtinger

"National Agreement" as Culture and Practice : The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849-1867) / Marianne Klemun

Scientific Nationalism : A historical approach to nature in late nineteenth-century Hungary / Gábor Palló

Acts of Creation : The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary / Tibor Frank

Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech science : Chemists in the Czech National Enlightenment / Soňa Štrbáňová

Fault Lines and Borderlands : Earthquake spotting in Imperial Austria / Deborah R. Coen

Nationalising Eugenics : The Hungarian public debate of 1910-1911 / Marius Turda

The politics of fin-de-siècle anatomy / Tatjana Buklijas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230289871

0230289878

OCLC:

782988503