Closing the Door on Globalization: Internationalism, Nationalism, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

Author: Fernando Clara
Publisher: Routledge
Category: General & World History, European History, British & Irish History, Military History, Globalization, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society, History Of Science
Book Format: Hardcover

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.

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Notes on Contributors


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
About Cláudia Ninhos
Claudia Ninhos is Researcher at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Fernando Clara is Professor of German Culture at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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