A global history of research education : : disciplines, institutions, and nations, 1840-1950 / / edited by Ku-ming Chang and Alan Rocke.

• Superior document: History of universities series ; volume XXXIV/1
• TeilnehmendeR: Chang, Ku-ming,; Rocke, Alan J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: History of universities series ; volume XXXIV/1.; Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages) :; illustrations (black and white).
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

This volume contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. It offers a global history of research education in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

Cover -- A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Discipline Formation and Research Training: Chicken or Egg? -- Introduction -- 2: Virtues of History: Exercises, Seminars, and the Emergence of the German Historical Discipline, 1830-1900 -- Character and Discipline -- Institutionalizing the Disciplines -- Epistemic Virtues as a Road to the Past -- Historians Past and Present -- Virtues Past and Present -- Institutionalized Exercises -- Virtues and Seminars -- 3: The Rise of Academic Laboratory Science: Chemistry and the 'German Model' in the Nineteenth Century -- Origins of the German Model -- Organic Chemistry and the 1830 Nexus -- The Rise of the Giessen Laboratory: Was It Really New? Was It Really First? -- The Model Pursued in Other German States -- Exportation to Other Countries -- 4: Training Research Mathematicians circa1900: The Cases of the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain -- Introduction -- The Prussian Universities as a Model -- The Importation of 'the German Model' to the United States -- Influences on France in the Aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War -- Great Britain as a Late-Comerto Graduate Education in Mathematics -- A Comparative Assessment and a Broader Conclusion -- 5: Research Training in the Humanities in British Universities, c.1870-1939: Classical Studies, History, Philosophy -- Introduction -- The British Academy Sample -- The Scholar's Life Cycle and Credentials -- Research Training in Universities: Adapting the BA Degree -- Fellowships, Essay Prizes, Study Abroad -- Post-graduate Research Training in Britain Before 1939.

6: The Année Sociologique as Training Ground for Sociology: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Art of Book Reviewing in Fin de Siècle France -- Introduction -- French University System -- Strategies Going Forward -- A New Strategy: Create a Journal -- Creating Sociology Through Book Reviewing -- Another Aspect of the Strategy: Original Papers -- Placing Group Members in Faculty Positions -- 7: Shaping the Unruly Statistician -- Learning on the Job -- Statistics Was a British Science? Biometry and Statistical Mathematics -- Experiment and Inference -- Disciplines and Professions -- Who is a Statistician? -- 8: The Training and Disciplinary Identity of Linguists in Europe's Long Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- In the wake of Napoleon -- Establishing Linguistics as a Field -- Saussure's Doctoral Studies -- Saussure's Teaching in Paris, Its Impact on Doctoral Training in Linguistics, and the Role of the Learned Societies -- Saussure and General Linguistics -- Appendix: Examiners' Reports on Saussure's PhD Thesis (my translation: JEJ) -- 9: Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940 -- Introduction -- Fieldwork and American Linguistics -- Britain -- France -- Germany -- Conclusion -- 10: Training Researchers in Ibero-America: Early Brazilian Chemists as Case Study -- Introduction -- Birth of Nations and Chemical Research in Spanish-speaking America -- Chemical Research in Argentina and Mexico -- A Country Without Universities: No Institutional Locus for Chemistry in Brazil? -- New University Space for Chemical Research -- Final Remarks -- 11: Inventing Laboratory Science in Meiji Japan -- Introduction -- Making Sense of the Laboratory -- Shiken Shitsu or Jikken Shitsu? Translating 'Laboratory' -- Research Training at the Jikken Shitsu in Tokyo -- Study Abroad -- Conclusion -- 12: Teaching and Research in Colonial Bombay -- Introduction.

The Institutions -- The Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society -- The Victoria and Albert Industrial Museum -- The University of Bombay -- The Bombay Natural History Society -- The Haffkine Institute -- The Royal Institute of Science -- The Prince of Wales Museum -- Imbricated Institutions -- Contrasting Characters -- Sir George Birdwood -- Homi Bhabha -- Conclusion -- 13: A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941 -- Introduction -- Paul Anderson and the Inauguration of the Master of Science Program -- Y. M. Hsieh: The First Chinese Chair in the Physics Department -- William Band: A 'Mathematical and Practical' Physicist from England -- An Outstanding Cradle of Physics Researchers in China -- 14: Science with Boundaries: Yang Zhongjian and Vertebrate Paleontology in Republican China, 1919-1950 -- Introduction -- At Peking University, 1919-1923 -- At the University of Munich, 1923-1927 -- The Cenozoic Research Laboratory in the Interwar Period -- The Central Asiatic Expedition -- Wartime Research -- Teaching -- International Networking -- Conclusion -- 15: Training Medical Researchers in Korea during the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945) -- Introduction -- Western Medicine Comes to Korea -- Medical Education Policy in Colonial Korea -- Medical Research in the Early 1910s -- The First Generation of Korean Medical Researchers -- Japanese Doctoral System and Medical Research -- Conclusion -- 16: Training Historians and Ethnologists in Taiwan, 1928-1949 -- Introduction -- The Foundation and Organization of Taihoku Imperial University -- Academic Careers at Japanese Universities -- Research Training -- The War and the Handover -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- The Foundation of Research Education in the University -- Instruments of Research and their Multiplication.

Disciplinary Identity and Proliferation amid the Expansion of Higher Education -- The Role of Women in Research -- Nations, States, Colonies, and Scientific Globalization -- A New Beginning.