History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This volume offers a global history of research education in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume compares the training of scholars in different disciplines and countries across the globe in a century that laid the foundation for modern academia. The articles in this volume examine the different training "instruments" and methods for text-based disciplines (history and philology), laboratory sciences (such as chemistry), theoretical sciences (mathematics, for instance), fieldwork disciplines (linguistics and paleontology), and clinical science (medicine). They consider countries or societies in Europe, North America, South and East Asia, and Latin America, and analyze the roles of the state, nationalism and internationalism that shaped the institutions and policies for research education. Some of these articles are comparative, while the others are in-depth case studies of individual disciplines in specific countries at different stages of scientific developments. The introduction and conclusion of this volume bring together the important themes that run across the article and make necessary supplements to present a synthetic picture of the global history of research education.

Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang is Associate Professor at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Alan Rocke is emeritus Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, US

- Introduction - 1: James Turner: Discipline Formation and Research Training: Chicken or Egg? - 2: Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen: Virtues of History: Exercises, Seminars, and the Emergence of the German Historical Discipline, 1830-1900 - 3: Alan Rocke: The Rise of Academic Laboratory Science: Chemistry and the "German Model" in the Nineteenth Century - 4: Karen Hunger Parshall: Training Research Mathematicians circa 1900: The Cases of the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain - 5: Janet Howarth: Research Training in the Humanities in British Universities, c.1870-1939: Classical Studies, History, Philosophy - 6: Daniela S. Barberis: The Année sociologique as Training Ground for Sociology: Durkheim, Mauss, and the Art of Book Reviewing in fin de siècle France - 7: Theodore M. Porter: Shaping the Unruly Statistician - 8: John E. Joseph: The Training and Disciplinary Identity of Linguists in Europe's Long Nineteenth Century - 9: Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang: Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940 - 10: Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia H.M. Ferraz, and Silvia Waisse: Training Researchers in Ibero-America: Early Brazilian Chemists as Case Study - 11: Yoshiyuki Kikuchi: Inventing Laboratory Science in Meiji Japan - 12: John Mathew and Pushkar Sohoni: Teaching and Research in Colonial Bombay - 13: Danian Hu: A Cradle of Chinese Physics Researchers: The Master of Science Program in the Physics Department of Yenching University, 1927-1941 - 14: Hsiao-Pei Yen: Science with Boundaries: Yang Zhongjian and Vertebrate Paleontology in Republican China, 1919-1950 - 15: In-sok Yeo: Training Medical Researchers in Korea during the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945) - 16: Wei-Chi Chen, Wan-yao Chou, and Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang: Training Historians and Ethnologists in Taiwan, 1928-1949 - Conclusion