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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2012

ISBN

9781137264978

Topic

History

Subtopic

Science History

Index

History

Cover
The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: An Introduction
2 Science and Its Publics: Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe
3 ‘ Staatsnation ’, ‘ Kulturnation ’, ‘ Nationalstaat ’: The Role of National Politics in the Advancement of Science and Scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938
4 National ‘Consensus’ As Culture and Practice: The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849–1867)
5 Scientific Nationalism: A Historical Approach to Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungary
6 Acts of Creation: The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary
7 Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech Science: Chemists in the Czech National Revival
8 Fault Lines and Borderlands: Earthquake Science in Imperial Austria
9 Nationalizing Eugenics: The Hungarian Public Debate of 1910–1911
10 The Politics of Fin-de-siècle Anatomy
Index