Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
PART I: UNIVERSITIES IN THE LONGUE DUR E.- Chapter 1: "Those That Have Most Money Must Have Least Learning" Undergraduate Education at the University of Oxford in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Robert Wells.- Chapter 2: From rsted to Bohr: The Sciences and the Danish University System, 1800-1920; Helge Kragh.- Chapter 3: Changing Concepts of "the University" and Oxford's Governance Debates, 1850s-2000s; Andrew M. Boggs.- Chapter 4: Challenging the Backlash: Women Science Students in Italian Universities, 1870s-2000s; Paola Govoni.- Chapter 5: The University of Strasbourg and World Wars; Pierre Laszlo.- Chapter 6: Universities in Central Europe: Changing Perspectives in the Troubled Twentieth Century; Petr Svobodny.- PART II: UNIVERSITIES IN DIVERSE POLITICAL CONTEXTS.- Chapter 7: University Models in Changing Political Contexts; Gabor Pallo.- Chapter 8: The Autonomous Industrial University of Barcelona and the Frustrated Expectations of Democracy in Pre-war Spain, 1933-34? Antoni Roca-Rosell.- Chapter 9: Reform and Repression: Manuel Lora Tamayo and the Spanish University in the 1960s; Agust Nieto-Galan.- Chapter 10: Universities in Russia: Current Reforms through the Prism of Soviet Heritage and International Practice; Evgeny Vodichev.- PART III: UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH.- Chapter 11: University Societies and Clubs in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Britain and their Role in the Promotion of Research; William Lubenow.- Chapter 12: The German Model of Laboratory Science and the European Periphery, 1860-1914; Geert Vanpaemel.- Chapter 13: Foundation of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Astronomical Observatory in Late Nineteenth Century: A Step Towards Establishing a University in Lisbon; Lu s Miguel Carolino.- Chapter 14: The Political and Cultural Revolution of the CNRS: An Attempt at the Systematic Organization of Research in Opposition to "the Academic Spirit"; Robert Belot.- Chapter 15: Visions of Science: Research at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon seen through its Journal; Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro and Ana Sim es.- PART IV: UNIVERSITIES AND DISCIPLINE FORMATION.- Chapter 16: The Reforms of the Austrian University System and their Influence on the Process of Discipline Formation, 1848-1860; Christof Aichner.- Chapter 17: The Physics Laboratory of Leiden University; Dirk von Delft.- Chapter 18: A Peripheral Center: Early Quantum Physics at Cambridge; Jaume Navarro.- Chapter 19: From the Museum to the Field: Geology Teaching in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon; Teresa Salom Mota.- Chapter 20: The Emergence of Biotypology in Brazilian Medicine: The Italian Model, Textbooks, and Discipline Building, 1930-1940; Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes.- Epilogue.