A global history of research education : disciplines, institutions, and nations, 1840-1950 / edited by Ku-ming Chang and Alan Rocke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chang, Ku-Ming, editor.

Rocke, Alan J., editor.

Series:

History of universities series ; volume XXXIV/1.

Oxford scholarship online.

History of universities series ; volume XXXIV/1

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--History.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--History.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Research--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

History of Universities

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. It offers a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Cover

A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Discipline Formation and Research Training: Chicken or Egg?

2: Virtues of History: Exercises, Seminars, and the Emergence of the German Historical Discipline, 1830-1900

Character and Discipline

Institutionalizing the Disciplines

Epistemic Virtues as a Road to the Past

Historians Past and Present

Virtues Past and Present

Institutionalized Exercises

Virtues and Seminars

3: The Rise of Academic Laboratory Science: Chemistry and the 'German Model' in the Nineteenth Century

Origins of the German Model

Organic Chemistry and the 1830 Nexus

The Rise of the Giessen Laboratory: Was It Really New? Was It Really First?

The Model Pursued in Other German States

Exportation to Other Countries

4: Training Research Mathematicians circa1900: The Cases of the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain

The Prussian Universities as a Model

The Importation of 'the German Model' to the United States

Influences on France in the Aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War

Great Britain as a Late-Comerto Graduate Education in Mathematics

A Comparative Assessment and a Broader Conclusion

5: Research Training in the Humanities in British Universities, c.1870-1939: Classical Studies, History, Philosophy

The British Academy Sample

The Scholar's Life Cycle and Credentials

Research Training in Universities: Adapting the BA Degree

Fellowships, Essay Prizes, Study Abroad

Post-graduate Research Training in Britain Before 1939.

6: The Année Sociologique as Training Ground for Sociology: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Art of Book Reviewing in Fin de Siècle France

French University System

Strategies Going Forward

A New Strategy: Create a Journal

Creating Sociology Through Book Reviewing

Another Aspect of the Strategy: Original Papers

Placing Group Members in Faculty Positions

7: Shaping the Unruly Statistician

Learning on the Job

Statistics Was a British Science? Biometry and Statistical Mathematics

Experiment and Inference

Disciplines and Professions

Who is a Statistician?

8: The Training and Disciplinary Identity of Linguists in Europe's Long Nineteenth Century

In the wake of Napoleon

Establishing Linguistics as a Field

Saussure's Doctoral Studies

Saussure's Teaching in Paris, Its Impact on Doctoral Training in Linguistics, and the Role of the Learned Societies

Saussure and General Linguistics

Appendix: Examiners' Reports on Saussure's PhD Thesis (my translation: JEJ)

9: Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940

Fieldwork and American Linguistics

Britain

France

Germany

Conclusion

10: Training Researchers in Ibero-America: Early Brazilian Chemists as Case Study

Birth of Nations and Chemical Research in Spanish-speaking America

Chemical Research in Argentina and Mexico

A Country Without Universities: No Institutional Locus for Chemistry in Brazil?

New University Space for Chemical Research

Final Remarks

11: Inventing Laboratory Science in Meiji Japan

Making Sense of the Laboratory

Shiken Shitsu or Jikken Shitsu? Translating 'Laboratory'

Research Training at the Jikken Shitsu in Tokyo

Study Abroad

12: Teaching and Research in Colonial Bombay

Introduction.

The Institutions

The Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

The Victoria and Albert Industrial Museum

The University of Bombay

The Bombay Natural History Society

The Haffkine Institute

The Royal Institute of Science

The Prince of Wales Museum

Imbricated Institutions

Contrasting Characters

Sir George Birdwood

Homi Bhabha

13: A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941

Paul Anderson and the Inauguration of the Master of Science Program

Y. M. Hsieh: The First Chinese Chair in the Physics Department

William Band: A 'Mathematical and Practical' Physicist from England

An Outstanding Cradle of Physics Researchers in China

14: Science with Boundaries: Yang Zhongjian and Vertebrate Paleontology in Republican China, 1919-1950

At Peking University, 1919-1923

At the University of Munich, 1923-1927

The Cenozoic Research Laboratory in the Interwar Period

The Central Asiatic Expedition

Wartime Research

Teaching

International Networking

15: Training Medical Researchers in Korea during the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945)

Western Medicine Comes to Korea

Medical Education Policy in Colonial Korea

Medical Research in the Early 1910s

The First Generation of Korean Medical Researchers

Japanese Doctoral System and Medical Research

16: Training Historians and Ethnologists in Taiwan, 1928-1949

The Foundation and Organization of Taihoku Imperial University

Academic Careers at Japanese Universities

Research Training

The War and the Handover

The Foundation of Research Education in the University

Instruments of Research and their Multiplication.

Disciplinary Identity and Proliferation amid the Expansion of Higher Education

The Role of Women in Research

Nations, States, Colonies, and Scientific Globalization

A New Beginning.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021).

ISBN:

0-19-265917-0

0-19-193334-1

0-19-265916-2

OCLC:

1260347541

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access