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Armed with expertise : the militarization of American social research during the Cold War /

This title shows how the social sciences became enmeshed in a militarized system that has persisted, even grown, in recent years as it moved off campus, making it less visible and therefore less controversial. Rohde offers especially striking and disturbing material on the blow-back of social scienc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rohde, Joy, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Colección:American institutions and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : hearts, minds, and militarization
  • Creating the gray area : scholars, soldiers, and national security
  • A democracy of experts : knowledge and politics in the military-industrial-academic complex
  • Deeper shades of gray : ambition and deception in Project Camelot
  • From democratic experts to "automatic cold warriors" : dismantling the gray area in the Vietnam era
  • Fade to black : the enduring warfare state
  • Epilogue : militarization without end?