The Academic World in the Era of the Great War

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This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected academic world that had developed in the late nineteenth century. Adopting a strong international approach, the contributors to this volume examine the impact of the War on individuals, institutions, and disciplines, cumulatively demonstrating the strong afterlife of conflict for scholarly practices and academic communities across Europe and North America, in the decades following the cessation of the Great War. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: The Academic World in the Era of the Great War (Marie-Eve Chagnon, Tomás Irish)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Off Campus: German Propaganda Professors in America, 1914–1917 (Charlotte A. Lerg)....Pages 21-41 Men of Science: The British Association, Masculinity and the First World War (Heather Ellis)....Pages 43-64 Junior Faculty, National Education and the (Re)making of the Academic Community in the Russian Empire During and After the Great War (Alexander Dmitriev)....Pages 65-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 “Despite Wars, Scholars Remain the Great Workers of the International”: American Sociologists and French Sociology During the First World War (Andrew M. Johnston)....Pages 97-118 Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution, 1914–1921 (Tomás Irish)....Pages 119-139 A World in Collapse: How the Great War Shaped Waldemar Deonna’s Theory on Europe’s Decline (Christina Theodosiou)....Pages 141-160 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 “The Domain of the Young as the Generation of the Future”: Student Agency and Anglo-German Exchange After the Great War (Tara Windsor)....Pages 163-187 “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)....Pages 189-211 American Scientists and the Process of Reconciliation in the International Scientific Community, 1917–1925 (Marie-Eve Chagnon)....Pages 213-231 Negotiated Truth: The Franco–German Historians Agreement of 1951 and the Long History of Cultural Demobilization After the First World War (Mona L. Siegel)....Pages 233-250 Front Matter ....Pages 251-251 The World of Science, the Great War and Beyond: Revisiting Max Weber’s Wissenschaft als Beruf (Roy MacLeod)....Pages 253-270 Back Matter ....Pages 271-276