Nationalism and Internationalism in Science, 1880 1939

This book examines the upsurge of nationalism among scientists of warring nations during and after World War I.

Résumé
Showing how the rise of scientific organisations around the turn of the century had centred on national scientific enterprises, Crawford argues that scientific activities of the late nineteenth century were an integral part of the emergence of the nation-state in Europe.

Contenu

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Conceptual and Historiographical Issues: 1. Methods for a social history of scientific development; 2. First the nation: national and international science, 1880 1914; Part II. Critical and Empirical Studies: 3. Internationalism in science as a casualty of World War I; 4. Centre-periphery relations in science: the case of Central Europe; 5. National purpose and international symbols: the Kaiser-Wilhelm Society and the Nobel institution; 6. Nobel laureates as an élite in American science; Bibliographical essay; Index.