The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

1. Front Matter

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2. The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: An Introduction

   • Mitchell G. Ash, Jan Surman

   Pages 1-29

3. Science and Its Publics: Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe

   • Jan Surman

   Pages 30-56

4. ‘ Staatsnation ’, ‘ Kulturnation ’, ‘ Nationalstaat ’: The Role of National Politics in the Advancement of Science and Scholarship in Austria from 1848 to 1938

   • Johannes Feichtinger

   Pages 57-82

5. National ‘Consensus’ As Culture and Practice: The Geological Survey in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire (1849–1867)

   • Marianne Klemun

   Pages 83-101

6. Scientific Nationalism: A Historical Approach to Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungary

   • Gábor Palló

   Pages 102-112

7. Acts of Creation: The Eötvös Family and the Rise of Science Education in Hungary

   • Tibor Frank

   Pages 113-137

8. Patriotism, Nationalism and Internationalism in Czech Science: Chemists in the Czech National Revival

   • Soňa Štrbáňová

   Pages 138-156

9. Fault Lines and Borderlands: Earthquake Science in Imperial Austria

   • Deborah R. Coen

   Pages 157-182

10. Nationalizing Eugenics: The Hungarian Public Debate of 1910–1911

    • Marius Turda

    Pages 183-208

11. The Politics of Fin-de-siècle Anatomy

    • Tatjana Buklijas

    Pages 209-244

12. Back Matter

    Pages 234-258

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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.

• University of Vienna, Austria

  Mitchell G. Ash

• Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria

  Jan Surman

TATJANA BUKLIJAS Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand DEBORAH R. COEN Assistant Professor, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA JOHANNES FEICHTINGER Senior Research Associate at the Commission for Cultural Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria TIBOR FRANK Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary MARIANNE KLEMUN Associate Professor and member of the Working Group in History of Science, Department of History and since 2006 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria GÁBOR PALLÓ Senior research fellow in the Institute for Research Organization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary SO?A TRBÁ?OVÁ Associate Professor, Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, current President of the European Science Foundation and Effective Member of the International Academy of History of Science, Prague MARIUS TURDA Reader in 20th Century Eastern and Central European Biomedicine and Deputy Director, The Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University, UK

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