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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. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0…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. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Axel Jansen, PD Dr., lehrte an den Universitäten Tübingen, Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main und Kassel sowie an der University of California, Los Angeles; seit 2016 ist er Stellvertretender Direktor des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments9 1. Introduction The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache11 The Revised Theory of Professionalization14 Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State18 Approach and Methodology21 Investigative Agenda25 2. Family Background The Franklin and Bache Families27 The Dallas Family33 Tertium Quid37 Sophia Dallas Bache41 Richard Bache's Failure45 3. A Career in Science? West Point50 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers59 National Purpose64 4. Early Research and Institutional Development Scientist or Administrator?66 Bache at the University of Pennsylvania67 The Urban Setting70 The Franklin Institute's Raison d'Être73 The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions79 Weights and Measures92 The Debate on Meteor Showers105 Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators117 5.Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842 Girard College as a Political Symbol126 The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism133 Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence137 More on Bache's European Tour150 Central High School159 Bache Ejected166 6. Bache's Program for National Consolidation I Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"173 American Mythology174 Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation183 "This Most August Sovereign"189 Elites in the American Republic194 7.Bache's Program for National Consolidation II The United States Coast Survey197 The National Institute205 Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute209 European Conditions215 Developing American Science218 Guarding the Palladium222 American Science by an American Union231 8.Bache's Program for National Consolidation III The American Association for the Advancement of Science236 Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President238 9. Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854 A National Club248 "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me"251 "A Victory for the Evil One"275 President of an Invisible National Academy281 10.The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences The Timing285 The Bache-Lieber Correspondence287 "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"294 More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence306 The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences308 11.Conclusion A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession315 Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career320 List of Figures327 Selected Bibliography Manuscripts and Archival Material328 Printed Primary Sources329 Books and Articles333 Index345Table of Contents
Acknowledgments9
1. Introduction The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache11 The Revised Theory of Professionalization14 Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State18 Approach and Methodology21 Investigative Agenda25
2. Family Background The Franklin and Bache Families27 The Dallas Family33 Tertium Quid37 Sophia Dallas Bache41 Richard Bache's Failure45
3. A Career in Science? West Point50 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers59 National Purpose64
4. Early Research and Institutional Development Scientist or Administrator?66 Bache at the University of Pennsylvania67 The Urban Setting70 The Franklin Institute's Raison d'Être73 The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions79 Weights and Measures92 The Debate on Meteor Showers105 Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators117
5.Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842 Girard College as a Political Symbol126 The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism133 Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence137 More on Bache's European Tour150 Central High School159 Bache Ejected166
6. Bache's Program for National Consolidation I Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"173 American Mythology174 Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation183 "This Most August Sovereign"189 Elites in the American Republic194
7.Bache's Program for National Consolidation II The United States Coast Survey197 The National Institute205 Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute209 European Conditions215 Developing American Science218 Guarding the Palladium222 American Science by an American Union231
8.Bache's Program for National Consolidation III The American Association for the Advancement of Science236 Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President238
9. Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854 A National Club248 "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me"251 "A Victory for the Evil One"275 President of an Invisible National Academy281
10.The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences The Timing285 The Bache-Lieber Correspondence287 "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"294 More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence306 The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences308
11.Conclusion A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession315 Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career320
List of Figures327
Selected Bibliography Manuscripts and Archival Material328 Printed Primary Sources329 Books and Articles333
Table of Contents Acknowledgments9 1. Introduction The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache11 The Revised Theory of Professionalization14 Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State18 Approach and Methodology21 Investigative Agenda25 2. Family Background The Franklin and Bache Families27 The Dallas Family33 Tertium Quid37 Sophia Dallas Bache41 Richard Bache's Failure45 3. A Career in Science? West Point50 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers59 National Purpose64 4. Early Research and Institutional Development Scientist or Administrator?66 Bache at the University of Pennsylvania67 The Urban Setting70 The Franklin Institute's Raison d'Être73 The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions79 Weights and Measures92 The Debate on Meteor Showers105 Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators117 5.Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842 Girard College as a Political Symbol126 The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism133 Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence137 More on Bache's European Tour150 Central High School159 Bache Ejected166 6. Bache's Program for National Consolidation I Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"173 American Mythology174 Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation183 "This Most August Sovereign"189 Elites in the American Republic194 7.Bache's Program for National Consolidation II The United States Coast Survey197 The National Institute205 Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute209 European Conditions215 Developing American Science218 Guarding the Palladium222 American Science by an American Union231 8.Bache's Program for National Consolidation III The American Association for the Advancement of Science236 Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President238 9. Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854 A National Club248 "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me"251 "A Victory for the Evil One"275 President of an Invisible National Academy281 10.The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences The Timing285 The Bache-Lieber Correspondence287 "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"294 More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence306 The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences308 11.Conclusion A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession315 Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career320 List of Figures327 Selected Bibliography Manuscripts and Archival Material328 Printed Primary Sources329 Books and Articles333 Index345Table of Contents
Acknowledgments9
1. Introduction The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache11 The Revised Theory of Professionalization14 Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State18 Approach and Methodology21 Investigative Agenda25
2. Family Background The Franklin and Bache Families27 The Dallas Family33 Tertium Quid37 Sophia Dallas Bache41 Richard Bache's Failure45
3. A Career in Science? West Point50 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers59 National Purpose64
4. Early Research and Institutional Development Scientist or Administrator?66 Bache at the University of Pennsylvania67 The Urban Setting70 The Franklin Institute's Raison d'Être73 The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions79 Weights and Measures92 The Debate on Meteor Showers105 Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators117
5.Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842 Girard College as a Political Symbol126 The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism133 Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence137 More on Bache's European Tour150 Central High School159 Bache Ejected166
6. Bache's Program for National Consolidation I Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"173 American Mythology174 Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation183 "This Most August Sovereign"189 Elites in the American Republic194
7.Bache's Program for National Consolidation II The United States Coast Survey197 The National Institute205 Bache's Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute209 European Conditions215 Developing American Science218 Guarding the Palladium222 American Science by an American Union231
8.Bache's Program for National Consolidation III The American Association for the Advancement of Science236 Bache's 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President238
9. Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854 A National Club248 "The Dark Prospect Appalls Me"251 "A Victory for the Evil One"275 President of an Invisible National Academy281
10.The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences The Timing285 The Bache-Lieber Correspondence287 "Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions"294 More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence306 The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences308
11.Conclusion A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession315 Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache's Career320
List of Figures327
Selected Bibliography Manuscripts and Archival Material328 Printed Primary Sources329 Books and Articles333
Index345
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»Jansens Buch liefert ein wichtiges Stück der Wissenschafts(organisations)geschichte der USA und verhilft zu neuen Fragen - in beidem liegt kein geringer Verdienst seiner Studie.« Amerikastudien/American Studies, 01.01.2013»Jansen gelingt eine lesbare, interessante Studien, die spannende Informationen über die Professionalisierung der Wissenschaften in einer wichtigen Phase der US-Gesellschaft liefert und dank durchdachter Gliederung sowie eines gründlichen Index sich dem Leser leicht erschließt.« Historische Zeitschrift, 01.06.2013»Axel Jansen's writing is exemplary in its deployment of close readings and literary perspectives to rethink large issues in the history of American science and the American state.« Theodore M. Porter, University of Caifornia (UCLA)»This challenging new perspective is a must-read for anyone interested in the various roots of modern science and professionalism.« James C. Mohr, College of Arts and Sciences Professor of History and Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences, University of Oregon»This is a book historians will not fail to read.« Thomas Haskell, Rice University»Through keen analysis, Jansen expertly delineates Bache's significant role in professional and institutional development in the United States. Alexander Dallas Bache is a substantial contribution to both the history of science and our understanding of the development of the American nation.« Lester D. Stephens, Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 1, June 2012»This is not your grandmother or grandfather's biography. [...] What Axel Jansen has done in his unusual and innovative book, Alexander Dallas Bache, is deploy a particular theoretical and methodological perspective to better understand the life of the important American scientific institution builder of the mid-nineteenth century.« Earth Sciences History (2013), 32 (1)…mehr
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