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Transforming American Science: Universities, the Government, and the Cold War

Transforming American Science: Universities, the Government, and the Cold War

Engel, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and

Economics20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032427043
ISBN13: 9781032427041
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 11 2023
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades.

The events of the book lie within the context of the Cold War, when pressure to maintain parity with the Soviet Union impelled more generous government spending and a willingness of some universities to reorient their missions in the service of country and of science. The book draws upon a substantial amount of archival research conducted in various university archives (MIT, Berkeley, Stanford) as well as at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and various presidential libraries. Author Jonathan Engel considers the repurposing of the wartime Manhattan Engineering District and the Office of Naval Research to robust peacetime roles in supporting the nation's expanding research efforts, along with the birth of the National Science Foundation, space exploration, and atoms for peace among other topics.

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