Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse....
Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientif...
This book examines current policy discussions around the migrationdevelopment nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current rediscovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.
This book examines current policy discussions around the migrationdevelopment nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism t...
This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society--a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned many. Uncovering these worlds of positivism, the volume ranges from India, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula to Central Europe, Russia, and Brazil, examining positivism's impact as one of...
This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mil...
Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyses the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.
Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History o...
