Author: PENNSYLVANIA. Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School District
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Report to the Controllers of the Public Schools, on the re-organization of the Central High-School of Philadelphia, by A. D. Bache
Author: PENNSYLVANIA. Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School District
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Pages : 58
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Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science
Author: Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521433952
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important historiographic themes. We gain a better understanding of the particular style of nineteenth-century American science by examining the role of the Coast Survey as a source of patronage. Perhaps most important, this study explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice are embedded within local contexts. Although Bache sought to use the Coast Survey to raise the status of American science partly by emulating European scientific elites, his efforts also reflected the cultural and political values of antebellum America. Slotten thus analyzes the interrelationship between political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521433952
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important historiographic themes. We gain a better understanding of the particular style of nineteenth-century American science by examining the role of the Coast Survey as a source of patronage. Perhaps most important, this study explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice are embedded within local contexts. Although Bache sought to use the Coast Survey to raise the status of American science partly by emulating European scientific elites, his efforts also reflected the cultural and political values of antebellum America. Slotten thus analyzes the interrelationship between political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Report on the Public Archives of the City and County of Philadelphia
Author: Herman Vandenburg Ames
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 7, 1841)
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Georgia and State Rights
Author: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Prize essay on Georgia and state rights
Author: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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