Closing the door on globalization : internationalism, nationalism, culture and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Closing the door on globalization : internationalism, nationalism, culture and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
（Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, 32）
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is a book about the tensions and entangled interactions between internationalism and nationalism, and about the effects both had on European scientific and cultural settings from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From chemistry to philology the essays tackle different historical case studies exploring how the paths taken by science and culture during the period were affected by nationalism and internationalism.
Table of Contents
1. (Inter)Nationalism, science and culture: Disruptions and entanglements from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. An introduction, Fernando Clara and Claudia Ninhos 2. The politics of interwar chemistry. Neutrality and nationalism in the rhetoric and actions of internationalist chemists, Jorrit Smit 3. "Mon Cher Ami": Curators, archaeological museums and the formation of an international knowledge transfer network, Jason R. Young 4. The nineteenth century Leipzig book industry and the pan-European trade of foreign-language editions before copyright law, Alberto Gabriele 5. Non-state engineers in the making of a stateless nation: Techno-nationalism in Catalonia (Spain), 1929-1939, Jaume Valentines-Alvarez 6. Conflicting influences in Antonio Camara's making of the National Agronomic Station, Joao P. R. Joaquim 7. The nationalization of the Portuguese landscape: Landscape architecture, road engineering and the making of the Estado Novo dictatorship, Claudia Ninhos and Luisa Sousa 8. Ethnography and the construction of Jewish identity, Olga Osadtschy 9. Relocating knowledge: From international science to national philology, Fernando Clara
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