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Alexander Dallas Bache: Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
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Abstract Alexander Dallas Bache was the key leader of antebellum American scientists. Presuming his profession to be a herald of an integrated U.S. nation-state, Bache guided organizations such as the United States Coast Survey, then the country's largest scientific enterprise. In this analytical biography, ... mehr
Alexander Dallas Bache was the key leader of antebellum American scientists. Presuming his profession to be a herald of an integrated U.S. nation-state, Bache guided organizations such as the United States Coast Survey, then the country's largest scientific enterprise. In this analytical biography, Axel Jansen explains Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as a national foundation for a universalistic culture - efforts that culminated during the Civil War when Bache helped found the National Academy of Sciences as a symbol for the continued viability of an American nation.... weniger
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Verlag
Campus Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Frankfurt am Main
Seitenangabe
353 S.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12907/978-3-593-41046-3
ISBN
978-3-593-41046-3
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0