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Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

:	Axel Jansen
:	Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
:	Campus Verlag
:	9783593410463
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:	CHF 0.50
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:	Regional- und Ländergeschichte
:	English

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Alexander Dallas Bache was the key leader of antebellum American scientists. Presuming his profession to be a herald of an integrated U.S. nation-state, Bache guided organizations such as the United States Coast Survey, then the country's largest scientific enterprise. In this analytical biography, Axel Jansen explains Bache's efforts to build and shape public institutions as a national foundation for a universalistic culture-efforts that culminated during the Civil War when Bache helped found the National Academy of Sciences as a symbol for the continued viability of an American nation. Die Open-Access-Version dieser Publikation wird gefördert mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington. https://creativecommons.org/l censes/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Axel Jansen, PD Dr., lehrte an den Universitäten Tübingen, Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main und Kassel sowie an der University of California, Los Angeles; seit 2016 ist er Stellvertretender Direktor des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington.

	Table of Contents	8
	Acknowledgements	12
	Introduction	14
	The Curious Case of Alexander Dallas Bache	14
	The Revised Theory of Professionalization	17
	Science as a Profession and the American Nation-State	21
	Approach and Methodology	24
	Investigative Agenda	28
	Family Background	30
	The Franklin and Bache Families	30
	The Dallas Family	36
	Tertium Quid	40
	Sophia Dallas Bache	44
	Richard Bache’s Failure	48
	A Career in Science?	53
	West Point	53
	The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	62
	National Purpose	67
	Early Research and Institutional Development	69
	Scientist or Administrator?	69
	Bache at the University of Pennsylvania	70
	The Urban Setting	73
	The Franklin Institute’s Raison d’Être	76
	The Report on Steam Boiler Explosions	82
	Weights and Measures	95
	The Debate on Meteor Showers	108
	Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators	120
	Girard College and Central High School, 1836–1842	129
	Girard College as a Political Symbol	129
	The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism	136
	Bache’s European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence	140
	More on Bache’s European Tour	153
	Central High School	162
	Bache’s Program for National Consolidation I	176
	Bache’s 1842 Address on “American Manufactures”	176
	American Mythology	177
	Prospects for Consolidating the American Nation	186
	“This Most August Sovereign”	192
	Elites in the American Republic	197
	Bache’s Program for National Consolidation II	200
	The United States Coast Survey	200
	The National Institute	208
	Bache’s Speech at the 1844 Meeting of the National Institute	212
	European Conditions	218
	Guarding the Palladium	225
	American Science by an American Union	234
	Bache’s Program for National Consolidation III	239
	The American Association for the Advancement of Science	239
	Bache’s 1851 Speech as Outgoing AAAS President	241
	Bache, Benjamin Peirce, and the Lazzaroni in 1854	251
	A National Club	251
	“The Dark Prospect Appalls Me”	254
	“A Victory for the Evil One”	278
	President of an Invisible National Academy	284
	The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences	288
	The Timing	288
	The Bache-Lieber Correspondence	290
	“Ignorant of Scriptural Injunctions”	297
	More on the Bache-Lieber Correspondence	309
	The Founding of the National Academy of Sciences	311
	Conclusion	318
	A New Paradigm for Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century American Science as a Profession	318
	Coordinates of Alexander Dallas Bache’s Career	323
	Figures	330
	Selected Bibliography	331
	1. Manuscripts and Archival Material	331
	2. Printed Primary Sources	332
	3. Books and Articles	336
	Index	348