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The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science Under ICES. By Helen M. Rozwadowski. Copenhagen: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in association with University of Washington Press, 2002. ix + 410 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $50.00.
In this litigious age, institutional history poses risks for untenured scholars. Take the recent case of Andrea Hamilton, who wrote her dissertation on Baltimore's Bryn Mawr School. After she signed a publication contract, the school's trustees threatened legal action. A two-year stalemate ensued. The trustees finally relented in response to a letter signed by 140 historians, who warned that the school's action undermined academic freedom. Despite the happy ending, the episode suggests that undertaking a work of institutional history is the intellectual equivalent of skydiving with a dodgy parachute. . . .
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