- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lastinginfluence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the HabsburgEmpire.
The Habsburg Empire and its successor stateswere home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building,as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict,then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe.
By going beyond national narratives, Surman reveals the Empire as a state with institutions divided by language but united by legislation, practices, and other influences. Such an approach allows readers a better view to how scholars turned gradually away from state-centric discourse to form distinct language communities after 1867; these influences affected scholarship, and by examining the scholarly record, Surman tracks the turn.
Drawing on archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine, Surman analyzes the careers of several thousandscholars from the faculties of philosophy and medicine of a number of Habsburguniversities, thus covering various moments in the history of the Empire forthe widest view. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918 focuses on the tension between the political and linguistic spaces scholars occupied and shows that this tension did not lead to a gradual dissolution of the monarchy's academia, but rather to an ongoing development of new strategies to cope with the cultural and linguistic multitude.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Language Use, Terminology, and Geography
Abbreviations
Introduction A Biography of the Academic Space
Chapter 1 Centralizing Science for the Empire
Chapter 2 The Neoabsolutist Search for a Unified Space
Chapter 3 Living Out Academic Autonomy
Chapter 4 German-Language Universities between Austrian and German Space
Chapter 5 Habsburg Slavs and Their Spaces
Chapter 6 Imperial Space and Its Identities
Chapter 7 Habsburg Legacies
Conclusion Paradoxes of the Central European Academic Space
Appendix 1 Disciplines of Habilitation at Austrian Universities
Appendix 2 Databases of Scholars at Cisleithanian Universities
Notes
Bibliography
Index
