Alexander Dallas Bache : building the American nation through science and education in the nineteenth century / Axel Jansen.
2011
Q143.B155 J36 2011 (Mapit)
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Alexander Dallas Bache : building the American nation through science and education in the nineteenth century / Axel Jansen.
Author
Jansen, Axel.
ISBN
9783593393551
3593393557
3593393557
Publication Details
Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, 2011.
Language
English
Description
352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call Number
Q143.B155 J36 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.2 B122ja
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-344) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Family background
A career in science?
Early research and institutional development
Girar College and Central High School, 1836-1842
Bache's Program for national consolidation I
Bache's Program for national consolidation II
Bache's Program for national consolidation III
Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854
The 1863 founding of the National Academy of Sciences
Conclusion.
Family background
A career in science?
Early research and institutional development
Girar College and Central High School, 1836-1842
Bache's Program for national consolidation I
Bache's Program for national consolidation II
Bache's Program for national consolidation III
Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854
The 1863 founding of the National Academy of Sciences
Conclusion.