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