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1 online resource (0 p.) |
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History of Universities Ser |
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History of Universities Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Discipline Formation and Research Training: Chicken or Egg? -- Introduction -- 2: Virtues of History: Exercises, Seminars, and the Emergence of the German Historical Discipline, 1830-1900 -- Character and Discipline -- Institutionalizing the Disciplines -- Epistemic Virtues as a Road to the Past -- Historians Past and Present -- Virtues Past and Present |
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Institutionalized Exercises -- Virtues and Seminars -- 3: The Rise of Academic Laboratory Science: Chemistry and the 'German Model' in the Nineteenth Century -- Origins of the German Model -- Organic Chemistry and the 1830 Nexus -- The Rise of the Giessen Laboratory: Was It Really New? Was It Really First? -- The Model Pursued in Other German States -- Exportation to Other Countries -- 4: Training Research Mathematicians circa1900: The Cases of the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain -- Introduction -- The Prussian Universities as a Model |
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The Importation of 'the German Model' to the United States -- Influences on France in the Aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War -- Great Britain as a Late-Comerto Graduate Education in Mathematics -- A Comparative Assessment and a Broader Conclusion -- 5: Research Training in the Humanities in British Universities, c.1870-1939: Classical Studies, History, Philosophy -- Introduction -- The British Academy Sample -- The Scholar's Life Cycle and Credentials -- Research Training in Universities: Adapting the BA Degree -- Fellowships, Essay Prizes, Study Abroad |
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Post-graduate Research Training in Britain Before 1939 -- 6: The Année Sociologique as Training Ground for Sociology: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Art of Book Reviewing in Fin de Siècle France -- Introduction -- French University System -- Strategies Going Forward -- A New Strategy: Create a Journal -- Creating Sociology Through Book Reviewing -- Another Aspect of the Strategy: Original Papers -- Placing Group Members in Faculty Positions -- 7: Shaping the Unruly Statistician -- Learning on the Job -- Statistics Was a British Science? Biometry and Statistical Mathematics -- Experiment and Inference |
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Disciplines and Professions -- Who is a Statistician? -- 8: The Training and Disciplinary Identity of Linguists in Europe's Long Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- In the wake of Napoleon -- Establishing Linguistics as a Field -- Saussure's Doctoral Studies -- Saussure's Teaching in Paris, Its Impact on Doctoral Training in Linguistics, and the Role of the Learned Societies -- Saussure and General Linguistics -- Appendix: Examiners' Reports on Saussure's PhD Thesis (my translation: JEJ) -- 9: Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940 -- Introduction |
| Summary |
History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Fieldwork and American Linguistics |
| Subject |
Education.
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Education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rocke, Alan J
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| ISBN |
9780192659163 |
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0192659162 |
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