The Academic World in the Era of the Great War

Book Overview

Introduction; Marie-Eve Chagnon, and Tom?s Irish.- Part I: Mobilisations.- Off Campus: German Propaganda Professors in America, 1914-1917; Charlotte Lerg.-Men of Science: The British Association, Masculinity, and the First World War; Heather Ellis.- Junior Faculty, National Education and the (re) making of the Academic Community in the Russian Empire During and After the Great War; Alexander Dmitriev.-Part II: Ruptures.-'Despite Wars, Scholars Remain the Great Workers of the International'. American Sociologists and French Sociology During the First World War; Andrew Johnston.-Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution, 1914-1921; Tom?s Irish.- A World in Collapse: How The Great War Shaped Waldemar Deonna's Theory on Europe's Decline; Christina Theodosiou.- Part III: Demobilisations.- 'The Domain of the Young as the Generation of the Future': Student Agency and Anglo-German Exchange After the Great War; Tara Windsor.- "Can the Science of the World Allow This?" German Academic Distress, Foreign Aid, and the Cultural Demobilization of the Academic World, 1919-1925; Elisabeth Piller.- American Scientists and the Process of Reconciliation in the International Community; Marie-Eve Chagnon.- Negotiated Truth: The Franco-German Historians Agreement of 1951 and the Long History of Cultural Demobilization After the First World War; Mona Siegel.- Conclusion: Reflections on the Academic World and the Great War: Recalling Wissenschaft Als Beruf, 1917-2017; Roy MacLeod

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349952656
• ISBN13: 9781349952656
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"