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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe /
How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Archives
- 1 Basic Science and the Coproduction of American Hegemony
- 2 Science and the Marshall Plan
- 3 The Place of CERN in U.S. Science and Foreign Policy
- 4 The Rockefeller Foundation in Postwar France: The Grant to the CNRS
- 5 The Rockefeller Foundation Confronts Communism in Europe and Anti-Communism at Home: The Case of Boris Ephrussi
- 6 The Ford Foundation, Physics, and the Intellectual Cold War in Europe
- 7 Providing “Trained Manpower for Freedom�: NATO, the Ford Foundation, and MIT
- 8 “Carrying American Ideas to the Unconverted�: Philip Morse�s Promotion of Operations Research in NATO9 Concluding Reflections: Hegemony and “Americanization�
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index