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Closing the Door on Globalization: Internationalism, Nationalism, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries book cover

1st Edition

Closing the Door on Globalization: Internationalism, Nationalism, Culture and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Edited By Cláudia Ninhos, Fernando Clara Copyright 2018
196 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is a book about the tensions and entangled interactions between internationalism and nationalism, and about the effects both had on European scientific and cultural settings from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From chemistry to philology the essays tackle different historical case studies exploring how the paths taken by science and culture during the period were affected... Read more

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Notes on Contributors

1. (Inter)Nationalism, science and culture: Disruptions and entanglements from the mid–nineteenth to the mid–twentieth century. An introduction

Fernando Clara and Cláudia Ninhos

2. The politics of interwar chemistry. Neutrality and nationalism in the rhetoric and actions of internationalist chemists

Jorrit Smit

3. "Mon Cher Ami": Curators, archaeological museums and the formation of an international knowledge transfer network

Jason R. Young

4. The nineteenth century Leipzig book industry and the pan–European trade of foreign–language editions before copyright law

Alberto Gabriele

5. Non–state engineers in the making of a stateless nation: Techno–nationalism in Catalonia (Spain), 1929–1939

Jaume Valentines–Álvarez

6. Conflicting influences in António Câmara’s making of the National Agronomic Station

João P. R. Joaquim

7. The nationalization of the Portuguese landscape: Landscape architecture, road engineering and the making of the Estado Novo dictatorship

Cláudia Ninhos and Luísa Sousa

8. Ethnography and the construction of Jewish identity

Olga Osadtschy

9. Relocating knowledge: From international science to national philology

Fernando Clara

Biography

Cláudia Ninhos is Researcher at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Fernando Clara is Professor of German Culture at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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