Alexander Dallas Bache
Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
Axel Jansen
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Axel Jansen, Alexander Dallas Bache (2023), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593410463
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Beschreibung / Abstract
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.
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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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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache
- The Revised Theory of Professionalization
- Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State
- Approach and Methodology
- Investigative Agenda
- Family Background
- The Franklin and Bache Families
- The Dallas Family
- Tertium Quid
- Sophia Dallas Bache
- Richard Bache’s Failure
- A Career in Science?
- West Point
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- National Purpose
- Early Research and Institutional Development
- Scientist or Administrator?
- Bache at the University of Pennsylvania
- The Urban Setting
- The Franklin Institute’s Raison d’Être
- The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions
- Weights and Measures
- The Debate on Meteor Showers
- Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators
- Girard College and Central High School, 1836–1842
- Girard College as a Political Symbol
- The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism
- Bache’s European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence
- More on Bache’s European Tour
- Central High School
- Bache’s Program for National Consolidation I
- Bache’s 1842 Address on “American Manufactures”
- American Mythology
- Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation
- “This Most August Sovereign”
- Elites in the American Republic
- Bache’s Program for National Consolidation II
- The United States Coast Survey
- The National Institute
- Bache’s Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute
- European Conditions
- Guarding the Palladium
- American Science by an American Union
- Bache’s Program for National Consolidation III
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Bache’s 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President
- Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854
- A National Club
- “The Dark Prospect Appalls Me”
- “A Victory for the Evil One”
- President of an Invisible National Academy
- The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences
- The Timing
- The Bache-Lieber Correspondence
- “Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions”
- More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence
- The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences
- Conclusion
- A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession
- Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache’s Career
- Figures
- Selected Bibliography
- 1. Manuscripts and Archival Material
- 2. Printed Primary Sources
- 3. Books and Articles
- Index