Alexander Dallas Bache / Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century / Axel Jansen / Taschenbuch / Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur / 353 S. / 2011 - Taschenbuch

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Autor/in: Axel Jansen
Titel: Alexander Dallas Bache - Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
Verlag: Campus
353 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011-02-14
Frankfurt; DE
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Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Sprache: Englisch
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BC; B131; Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Regionalgeschichte, Ländergeschichte; Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften); Verstehen; Geschichte; Alexander Dallas Bache; American Assocation for the Advanced of Science; Universität; USA; Hochschulgeschichte; Nation; Nationalstaat; Vereinigte Staaten; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Wissenschaftssystem; 5412 Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Programm; Wissenschaft (Gruppe 5) (CAM); Biografien und Sachliteratur; Amerikanische Geschichte; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA; 19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1800 bis ca. 1899); ED; E107

Table of Contents Acknowledgments 9 1. Introduction The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache 11 The Revised Theory of Professionalization 14 Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State 18 Approach and Methodology 21 Investigative Agenda 25 2. Family Background The Franklin and Bache Families 27 The Dallas Family 33 Tertium Quid 37 Sophia Dallas Bache 41 Richard Bache's Failure 45 3. A Career in Science? West Point 50 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 59 National Purpose 64 4. Early Research and Institutional Development Scientist or Administrator? 66 Bache at the University of Pennsylvania 67 The Urban Setting 70 The Franklin Institute's Raison d'Être 73 The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions 79 Weights and Measures 92 The Debate on Meteor Showers 105 Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators 117 5. Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842 Girard College as a Political Symbol 126 The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism 133 Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence 137 More on Bache's European Tour 150 Central High School 159 Bache Ejected 166 6. Bache's Program for National Consolidation I Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures" 173 American Mythology 174 Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation 183 "This Most August Sovereign" 189 Elites in the American Republic 194 7. Bache's Program for National Consolidation II The United States Coast Survey 197 The National Institute 205 Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute 209 European Conditions 215 Developing American Science 218 Guarding the Palladium 222 American Science by an American Union 231 8. Bache's Program for National Consolidation III The American Association for the Advancement of Science 236 Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President 238 9. Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854 A National Club 248 "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me" 251 "A Victory for the Evil One" 275 President of an Invisible National Academy 281 10. The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences The Timing 285 The Bache-Lieber Correspondence 287 "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions" 294 More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence 306 The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences 308 11. Conclusion A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession 315 Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career 320 List of Figures 327 Selected Bibliography Manuscripts and Archival Material 328 Printed Primary Sources 329 Books and Articles 333 Index 345