American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / / John Krige
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| Autore: |
Krige John
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| Titolo: |
American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / / John Krige
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 509.4/09045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - Europe - History - 20th century |
| Technology - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations Europe |
| Europe Foreign relations United States | |
| United States Foreign relations 20th century | |
| Europe Foreign relations 1945- | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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 NATO -- 9 Concluding Reflections: Hegemony and "Americanization" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe |
| ISBN: | 1-282-09709-1 |
| 9786612097096 | |
| 0-262-27763-8 | |
| 1-4294-7759-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812524103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)