Academic World in the Era of the Great War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-27
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt493 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor276
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349952656

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Tomás Irish is Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University, UK. He is the author of The University at War 1914-25: Britain, France and the United States (Palgrave, 2015), and Trinity in War and Revolution 1912-23 (2015).Marie-Eve Chagnon is part-time faculty member at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Her current research looks at the role played by the American scientific community in the reconciliation process entre les guerres.

Introduction; Marie-Eve Chagnon, and Tomás Irish.- Part I: Mobilisations.- Off Campus: German Propaganda Professors in America, 1914-1917; Charlotte Lerg.-Men of Science: The British Association, Masculinity, and the First World War; Heather Ellis.- Junior Faculty, National Education and the (re) making of the Academic Community in the Russian Empire During and After the Great War; Alexander Dmitriev.-Part II: Ruptures.-‘Despite Wars, Scholars Remain the Great Workers of the International’. American Sociologists and French Sociology During the First World War; Andrew Johnston.-Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution, 1914-1921; Tomás Irish.- A World in Collapse: How The Great War Shaped Waldemar Deonna's Theory on Europe's Decline; Christina Theodosiou.- Part III: Demobilisations.- ‘The Domain of the Young as the Generation of the Future’: Student Agency and Anglo-German Exchange After the Great War; Tara Windsor.- “Can the Science of the World Allow This?” German Academic Distress, Foreign Aid, and the Cultural Demobilization of the Academic World, 1919-1925; Elisabeth Piller.- American Scientists and the Process of Reconciliation in the International Community; Marie-Eve Chagnon.- Negotiated Truth: The Franco-German Historians Agreement of 1951 and the Long History of Cultural Demobilization After the First World War; Mona Siegel.- Conclusion: Reflections on the Academic World and the Great War: Recalling Wissenschaft Als Beruf, 1917-2017; Roy MacLeod.