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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The nationalization of scientific knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

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edited by Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman

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., 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 multi-national 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, supra-national networks of observation or data gathering, language issues in science education, and research practices in cross-national comparison

The nationalization 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 "consensus" 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 revival / Soňa Štrbáňová -- Fault lines and borderlands : earthquake science in imperial Austria / Deborah R. Coen -- Nationalizing eugenics : the Hungarian public debate of 1910-1911 / Marius Turda -- The politics of fin-de-siècle anatomy / Tatjana Buklijas