The nationalization of scientific knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918
By: edited by Mitchell G. Ash [and] Jan Surman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230289871
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; Science and state; Nationalism; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Nationalisation of Scientific Knowledge in nineteenth-century Central Europe : An introduction   Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman; title: Science and its publics : Internationality and national languages in Central Europe / Jan Surman; title: "Staatsnation," "Kulturnation," "Nationalstaat" : The role of national politics in the advancement of science and scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938 / Johannes Feichtinger; title: "National Agreement" as Culture and Practice : The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849-1867) / Marianne Klemun; title: Scientific Nationalism : A historical approach to nature in late nineteenth-century Hungary / Gábor Palló; title: Acts of Creation : The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary / Tibor Frank; title: Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech science : Chemists in the Czech National Enlightenment / Soňa Štrbáňová; title: Fault Lines and Borderlands : Earthquake spotting in Imperial Austria / Deborah R. Coen; title: Nationalising Eugenics : The Hungarian public debate of 1910-1911 / Marius Turda; title: The politics of fin-de-siècle anatomy / Tatjana Buklijas.