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 National Science
Foundation Award #0521737 |
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Inventing an International Culture of Change: 1870-1930 |
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| Investigator(s): |
Miriam Levin (PI)
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| Sponsor: |
Case Western Reserve University, OH 44106 2163684510
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| Start Date/Expiration Date |
2005-10-01 to 2007-03-31 (amended 2005-08-29) |
| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$25,000 |
| Abstract: PROJECT SUMMARY
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Miriam R. Levin
NSF Proposal
Inventing and International Culture of Change (1870-1930)
Project Summary
We are asking for $17,736 from the National Science Foundation to fund three workshops
over an 18-month period over two consecutive NSF fiscal years. Together these workshops
will allow six scholars to move forward with a comparative study examining how scientific
and technical change directed by groups of elites created a new form of industrial life in
nations across the globe, including the United States, Western Europe and Japan. We are
going to be examining the period from 1870 to 1930, a moment in which the forces of
modernity experienced crises and a time that includes what is known as the second
industrial revolution. This revolution was essentially an urban phenomenon, taking place
in large metropolitan centers such as London, Paris, and Berlin. Our project will focus
on how urban elites active in an international exchange of ideas constructed a new urban
culture though the establishment of new science and technology related institutions,
programs and projects that reconfigured the relationship between humans and nature
resituated in time and space.
Intellectual Merits:
We believe we are breaking new ground in two ways: First, exploring previously overlooked striking similarities, interconnections and differences among geographically distant industrializing centers. Second, by employing a research model that introduces the comparative mode and depends on the collaborative work of six scholars we can establish how and why these connections and differences came to be and helped structure cultural change on a global scale.
Broader Impacts
Broader impacts include encouraging comparative collaborative studies among historians of science and technology, providing a model for the integration of science and technology into urban studies, the history of urbanization, and the history of modernity, and the dissemination of this information and approach to the academic communities where workshops will be held. The project emphasizes developments on a global scale, and can thereby attraction the attention of those interested in global scientific and technological developments. The project will not only interest scholars across the social sciences, but also those interested in mobilizing resources to transform urban economies, infrastructure, and communities. |
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| NSF Org: |
SES - Division of Social and Economic Sciences |
| Award Number: |
0521737 |
| Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Ronald Rainger
SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences
SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
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| NSF Program(s): |
Hist & Philosophy of SET |
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
UNASSIGNED, 0000 |
| Program Element Code(s): |
1353 |
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