History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1: A Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950

History of Universities XXXIV/1 is a collection of scholarly articles that provides a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It compares training instruments and methods across disciplines and countries, examining the roles of the state, nationalism, and internationalism in shaping institutions and policies. The introduction and conclusion synthesize the important themes and offer a synthetic picture of the global history of research education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 22 July 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press

History of Universities XXXIV/1 is a vital resource for historians of higher education, featuring a diverse range of scholarly articles that provide a comprehensive overview of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume offers a global perspective, comparing the training of scholars across different disciplines and countries worldwide. It explores the various training instruments and methods used in text-based disciplines such as history and philology, labor sciences like chemistry, theoretical sciences like mathematics, fieldwork disciplines like linguistics and paleontology, and clinical sciences like medicine. The articles examine the roles of the state, nationalism, and internationalism in shaping research education institutions and policies in Europe, North America, South and East Asia, and Latin America. Some of the articles are comparative, while others focus on in-depth case studies of individual disciplines in specific countries at different stages of scientific development. The introduction and conclusion of this volume bring together the key themes that run throughout the articles, enhancing our understanding of the global history of research education.

This open-access title is available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License, making it freely accessible to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780192844774