ISBN:
9783593410463
Language:
German
Pages:
Online Ressource (6956 KB, 353 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Geschichte 2011
Parallel Title:
Print version Alexander Dallas Bache
DDC:
306.45
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Bache
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Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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for
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American
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Hochschulgeschichte
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the
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Wissenschaftssystem
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Science
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of
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Advanced
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USA
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Nationalstaat
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Nation
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Dallas
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Assocation
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Alexander
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Long description: Alexander Dallas Bache war der Architekt des amerikanischen Wissenschaftssystems im 19. Jahrhundert, ein amerikanischer Wilhelmvon Humboldt. Als die USA im Bürgerkrieg zu zerbrechen drohten, gelang Bache 1863 die Gründung der »National Academy ofSciences«. Im Namen der Wissenschaft schuf Bache damit ein Zeichen für den Fortbestand der Nation. Auf originelle Weise verknüpftAxel Jansen Biografieanalyse mit Wissenschafts- und Politikgeschichte.
Abstract:
Biographical note: Axel Jansen, PD Dr., lehrt an den Universitäten in Tübingen und Frankfurt am Main.
Abstract:
Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U.S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancement of Science and also led what was at that point the nation's largest scientific enterprise, the U.S. Coast Survey. In this analytical biography, Axel Jansen explains and explores Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as aids to his goal of creating a national foundation for a shared culture--efforts that culminated in his work during the Civil War as one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences, which he saw as a key symbol of the continued viability of a unified American nation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache; The Revised Theory of Professionalization; Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State; Approach and Methodology; Investigative Agenda; Family Background; The Franklin and Bache Families; The Dallas Family; Tertium Quid; Sophia Dallas Bache; Richard Bache's Failure; A Career in Science?; West Point; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; National Purpose; Early Research and Institutional Development; Scientist or Administrator?; Bache at the University of Pennsylvania; The Urban Setting
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The Franklin Institute's Raison d'ÊtreThe Report on Steam Boiler Explosions; Weights and Measures; The Debate on Meteor Showers; Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators; Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842; Girard College as a Political Symbol; The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism; Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence; More on Bache's European Tour; Central High School; Bache's Program for National Consolidation I; Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"; American Mythology
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Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation"This Most August Sovereign"; Elites in the American Republic; Bache's Program for National Consolidation II; The United States Coast Survey; The National Institute; Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute; European Conditions; Guarding the Palladium; American Science by an American Union; Bache's Program for National Consolidation III; The American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President; Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854; A National Club
Description / Table of Contents:
"The Dark Prospect Appalls Me""A Victory for the Evil One"; President of an Invisible National Academy; The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences; The Timing; The Bache-Lieber Correspondence; "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"; More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence; The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences; Conclusion; A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession; Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career; Figures; Selected Bibliography; 1. Manuscripts and Archival Material; 2. Printed Primary Sources
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3. Books and ArticlesIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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