Simões A., Diogo M.P., Gavroglu K. (eds.) Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Academic Landscapes

Springer, 2015. — 393 p.This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful book for understanding the deep changes that universities were undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue durée; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3) Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History, Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education, History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and humanities, and the general interested public.Introduction (by Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu).
“Those that Have Most Money Must Have Least Learning”: Undergraduate Education at the University of Oxford in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (by Robert Wells).
From Ørsted to Bohr: The Sciences and the Danish University System, 1800–1920 (by Helge Kragh).
Changing Concepts of ‘The University’ and Oxford’s Governance Debates, 1850s–2000s (by Andrew M. Boggs).
Challenging the Backlash: Women Science Students in Italian Universities (1870s–2000s) (by Paola Govoni).
The University of Strasbourg and World Wars (by Pierre Laszlo).
Universities in Central Europe: Changing Perspectives in the Troubled Twentieth Century (by Petr Svobodný).
University Models in Changing Political Contexts (by Gabor Palló).
The Autonomous Industrial University of Barcelona (1933–1934?) and the Frustrated Expectations of Democracy in Pre-war Spain (by Antoni Roca-Rosell).
Reform and Repression: Manuel Lora-Tamayo and the Spanish University in the 1960s (by Agustí Nieto-Galan).
Universities in Russia: Current Reforms Through the Prism of Soviet Heritage and International Practice (by Evgeny Vodichev).
University Societies and Clubs in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain and Their Role in the Promotion of Research (by William C. Lubenow).
The German Model of Laboratory Science and the European Periphery (1860–1914) (by Geert Vanpaemel).
Foundation of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Astronomical Observatory in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Step Towards Establishing a University (by Luís Miguel Carolino).
The Political and Cultural Revolution of the CNRS: An Attempt at the Systematic Organisation of Research in Opposition to “the Academic Spirit” (by Robert Belot).
Visions of Science: Research at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon seen Through its Journal (by Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro and Ana Simões).
The Reforms of the Austrian University System 1848–1860 and their Influence on the Process of Discipline Formation (by Christof Aichner).
The Physics Laboratory of Leiden University (by Dirk Delft).
A Peripheral Centre. Early Quantum Physics at Cambridge (by Jaume Navarro).
From the Museum to the Field: Geology Teaching in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (by Teresa Salomé Mota).
The Emergence of Biotypology in Brazilian Medicine: The Italian Model, Textbooks, and Discipline Building, 1930–1940 (by Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes).