LEADER 04603nam 2200613 450 001 9910799293803321 005 20230725020948.0 010 $a3-593-41046-X 035 $a(CKB)2560000000061360 035 $a(EBL)666210 035 $a(OCoLC)707068206 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000588619 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12198431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000588619 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10649370 035 $a(PQKB)11493848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC666210 035 $a519cc367-1dac-472b-b622-253e5dbbeaba 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000061360 100 $a20160907h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlexander Dallas Bache $ebuilding the American nation through science and education in the nineteenth century /$fAxel Jansen 205 $a1. Aufl. 210 1$aFrankfurt, [Germany] ;$aNew York :$cCampus Verlag,$d2011. 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-593-39355-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable 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 327 $aThe Franklin Institute's Raison d'E?treThe 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 327 $aProspects 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 327 $a"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 327 $a3. Books and ArticlesIndex 330 $aHauptbeschreibung Alexander Dallas Bache war der Architekt des amerikanischen Wissenschaftssystems im 19. Jahrhundert, ein amerikanischer Wilhelm von Humboldt. Als die USA im Bu?rgerkrieg zu zerbrechen drohten, gelang Bache 1863 die Gru?ndung der »National Academy of Sciences«. Im Namen der Wissenschaft schuf Bache damit ein Zeichen fu?r den Fortbestand der Nation. Auf originelle Weise verknu?pft Axel Jansen Biografieanalyse mit Wissenschafts- und Politikgeschichte. Biographische Informationen Axel Jansen, PD Dr., lehrt an den Universita?ten in Tu?bingen u 606 $aScientists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHistory 615 0$aScientists 615 0$aHistory. 676 $a306.45 676 $a509.2 676 $a973.7092 700 $aJansen$b Axel$01585994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799293803321 996 $aAlexander Dallas Bache$93871989 997 $aUNINA