Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Academic Landscapes

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
“Those that Have Most Money Must Have Least Learning”: Undergraduate Education at the University of Oxford in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 11-29
From Ørsted to Bohr:The Sciences and the Danish University System, 1800–1920....Pages 31-47
Changing Concepts of ‘The University’ and Oxford’s Governance Debates, 1850s–2000s....Pages 49-68
Challenging the Backlash: Women Science Students in Italian Universities (1870s–2000s)....Pages 69-88
The University of Strasbourg and World Wars....Pages 89-105
Universities in Central Europe: Changing Perspectives in the Troubled Twentieth Century....Pages 107-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
University Models in Changing Political Contexts....Pages 127-144
The Autonomous Industrial University of Barcelona (1933–1934?) and the Frustrated Expectations of Democracy in Pre-war Spain....Pages 145-158
Reform and Repression: Manuel Lora-Tamayo and the Spanish University in the 1960s....Pages 159-174
Universities in Russia: Current Reforms Through the Prism of Soviet Heritage and International Practice....Pages 175-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
University Societies and Clubs in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain and Their Role in the Promotion of Research....Pages 193-210
The German Model of Laboratory Science and the European Periphery (1860–1914)....Pages 211-225
Foundation of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Astronomical Observatory in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Step Towards Establishing a University....Pages 227-244
The Political and Cultural Revolution of the CNRS: An Attempt at the Systematic Organisation of Research in Opposition to “the Academic Spirit”....Pages 245-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-289
The Reforms of the Austrian University System 1848–1860 and their Influence on the Process of Discipline Formation....Pages 291-291
The Physics Laboratory of Leiden University....Pages 293-309
A Peripheral Centre. Early Quantum Physics at Cambridge....Pages 311-326
From the Museum to the Field: Geology Teaching in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon....Pages 327-344
Front Matter....Pages 345-360
The Emergence of Biotypology in Brazilian Medicine: The Italian Model, Textbooks, and Discipline Building, 1930–1940....Pages 291-291
Back Matter....Pages 361-380
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