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

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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.

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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.
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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.

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