2024, Publikationen

Johannes Mattes (2024). Collaborative Research in Imperial Vienna: Science Organization, Statehood, and Civil Society, 1848–1914. Austrian History Yearbook (Cambridge), 55: 1–28.

Wie wurde Forschung in Wien und der Habsburgermonarchie räumlich organisiert? Johannes Mattes untersucht in einem neuen Beitrag im Austrian History Yearbook (Cambridge) das Zusammenwirken von Wissenschaft, imperialer Staatlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft zwischen 1848 und 1914 unter dem Aspekt der Kooperation. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf drei Räumen, die für das Selbstverständnis der Habsburgermonarchie von zentraler Bedeutung… Read More Johannes Mattes (2024). Collaborative Research in Imperial Vienna: Science Organization, Statehood, and Civil Society, 1848–1914. Austrian History Yearbook (Cambridge), 55: 1–28.

2024, Publikationen

Jeremy Black (2024): Rethinking Geopolitics. Indiana University Press: Bloomington.

Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period. If current trends continue, we may be witnessing a tectonic realignment unseen in more than a century. In 1904, Halford Mackinder delivered a seminal lecture… Read More Jeremy Black (2024): Rethinking Geopolitics. Indiana University Press: Bloomington.

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Rajesh Kochhar (2024): Science and the British Empire. Routledge: London.

This book studies the linkages between science, technology and institution building in Colonial and Modern India. It discusses the advent and growth of modern science in India in terms of a nested three-stage model comprising the colonial-tool stage, the peripheral-native stage and the Indian response stage, each leading to and coexisting with the next. The… Read More Rajesh Kochhar (2024): Science and the British Empire. Routledge: London.