American science in an age of anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / / Jessica Wang
| American science in an age of anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / / Jessica Wang |
| Autore | Wang Jessica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - United States - History - 20th century
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8078-6710-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454958603321 |
Wang Jessica
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| Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c1999 | ||
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American science in an age of anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : scientists, anticommunism, and the Cold War / / Jessica Wang
| American science in an age of anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : scientists, anticommunism, and the Cold War / / Jessica Wang |
| Autore | Wang Jessica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.73 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - United States - History - 20th century
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
979-88-908676-9-8
0-8078-6710-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778976403321 |
Wang Jessica
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| Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c1999 | ||
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Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA / / edited by Dustin M. Wax
| Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA / / edited by Dustin M. Wax |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 185 p |
| Disciplina | 301.0973/0904 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WaxDustin M |
| Collana | Anthropology, culture, and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - United States - History - 20th century
Anthropologists - United States - History - 20th century Anthropologists - Political activity - United States Anthropology - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century Science and state - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786611878740
1-281-87874-X 1-84964-335-0 1-4356-9073-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454736903321 |
| London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008 | ||
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Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA / / edited by Dustin M. Wax
| Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA / / edited by Dustin M. Wax |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 185 p |
| Disciplina | 301.0973/0904 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WaxDustin M |
| Collana | Anthropology, culture, and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - United States - History - 20th century
Anthropologists - United States - History - 20th century Anthropologists - Political activity - United States Anthropology - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century Science and state - United States - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
9786611878740
1-281-87874-X 1-84964-335-0 1-4356-9073-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782655603321 |
| London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / / David H. Price
| Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / / David H. Price |
| Autore | Price David H. <1960-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxi, 452 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 301.09730904 |
| Soggetto topico |
Anthropology - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Anthropologists - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century Military intelligence - United States - History - 20th century Science and state - United States - History - 20th century Cold War |
| ISBN |
9780822374381
0822374382 9780822361060 082236106X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136422203321 |
Price David H. <1960->
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| Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland
| Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.9492/0609045 |
| Collana |
History of science and medicine library
History of modern science |
| Soggetto topico |
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century
Science and state - Europe, Western - History - 20th century Knowledge, Sociology of - History - 20th century Cold War - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-26422-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Secrecy and science -- Scientists, secrecy, and scientific intelligence : the challenges of international science in Cold War America / Ronald E. Doel -- A "need-to-know-more" criterion? : science and information security at NATO during the Cold War / Simone Turchetti -- A transnational approach to US nuclear weapons relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s / John Krige -- Part 2. Dutch perspectives -- Putting a lid on the gas centrifuge : classification of the Dutch ultracentrifuge project, 1960-1961 / Abel Streefland -- Quid pro quo : Dutch defense research during the early Cold War / Joroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld -- Chemical warfare research in the Netherlands / Herman Roozenbeek -- The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands : an example of science diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith -- Part 3. "Cold War" science? -- The absence of the East : international influences on science policy in Western Europe during the Cold War / David Baneke -- Colonial crossings : social science, social knowledge, and American power from the nineteenth century to the Cold War / Jessica Wang -- Part 4. Scientific hubris -- Cold War atmospheric sciences in the United States : from modeling to control / Kristine C. Harper -- Small state versus superpower : science and geopolitics in Greenland in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen -- The Ford Foundation and the measurement of values / Paul Erickson -- Index of names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460901303321 |
| Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland
| Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.9492/0609045 |
| Collana |
History of science and medicine library
History of modern science |
| Soggetto topico |
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century
Science and state - Europe, Western - History - 20th century Knowledge, Sociology of - History - 20th century Cold War - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 90-04-26422-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Secrecy and science -- Scientists, secrecy, and scientific intelligence : the challenges of international science in Cold War America / Ronald E. Doel -- A "need-to-know-more" criterion? : science and information security at NATO during the Cold War / Simone Turchetti -- A transnational approach to US nuclear weapons relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s / John Krige -- Part 2. Dutch perspectives -- Putting a lid on the gas centrifuge : classification of the Dutch ultracentrifuge project, 1960-1961 / Abel Streefland -- Quid pro quo : Dutch defense research during the early Cold War / Joroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld -- Chemical warfare research in the Netherlands / Herman Roozenbeek -- The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands : an example of science diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith -- Part 3. "Cold War" science? -- The absence of the East : international influences on science policy in Western Europe during the Cold War / David Baneke -- Colonial crossings : social science, social knowledge, and American power from the nineteenth century to the Cold War / Jessica Wang -- Part 4. Scientific hubris -- Cold War atmospheric sciences in the United States : from modeling to control / Kristine C. Harper -- Small state versus superpower : science and geopolitics in Greenland in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen -- The Ford Foundation and the measurement of values / Paul Erickson -- Index of names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797877503321 |
| Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland
| Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors, Frisco Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.9492/0609045 |
| Collana |
History of science and medicine library
History of modern science |
| Soggetto topico |
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century
Science and state - Europe, Western - History - 20th century Knowledge, Sociology of - History - 20th century Cold War - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 90-04-26422-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Secrecy and science -- Scientists, secrecy, and scientific intelligence : the challenges of international science in Cold War America / Ronald E. Doel -- A "need-to-know-more" criterion? : science and information security at NATO during the Cold War / Simone Turchetti -- A transnational approach to US nuclear weapons relationships with Britain and France in the 60s and 70s / John Krige -- Part 2. Dutch perspectives -- Putting a lid on the gas centrifuge : classification of the Dutch ultracentrifuge project, 1960-1961 / Abel Streefland -- Quid pro quo : Dutch defense research during the early Cold War / Joroen van Dongen and Friso Hoeneveld -- Chemical warfare research in the Netherlands / Herman Roozenbeek -- The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands : an example of science diplomacy / Giles Scott-Smith -- Part 3. "Cold War" science? -- The absence of the East : international influences on science policy in Western Europe during the Cold War / David Baneke -- Colonial crossings : social science, social knowledge, and American power from the nineteenth century to the Cold War / Jessica Wang -- Part 4. Scientific hubris -- Cold War atmospheric sciences in the United States : from modeling to control / Kristine C. Harper -- Small state versus superpower : science and geopolitics in Greenland in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann, Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen -- The Ford Foundation and the measurement of values / Paul Erickson -- Index of names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816325703321 |
| Leiden : , : Brill, , [2015] | ||
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Fred Whipple's empire : the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973 / / David H. DeVorkin
| Fred Whipple's empire : the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973 / / David H. DeVorkin |
| Autore | DeVorkin David H. <1944-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 522.197444 |
| Collana | A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge |
| Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics - United States - History - 20th century
Astronomy - United States - History - 20th century Science and state - United States - History - 20th century Cold War - History Astronomy Astrophysics Science and state |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Fred Whipple's empire |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910708690403321 |
DeVorkin David H. <1944->
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| Washington, D.C. : , : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, , 2018 | ||
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In Sputnik's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America / / Zuoyue Wang
| In Sputnik's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : the President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America / / Zuoyue Wang |
| Autore | Wang Zuoyue <1963-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (478 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.973/0609045 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science and state - United States - History - 20th century
Sputnik satellites Cold War |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-77645-9
9786611776459 0-8135-4514-5 |
| Classificazione | MK 2300 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Introduction -- Part I. Prelude: Before Sputnik -- 1. American Public Science, 1863-1945 -- 2. The Origins of Technological Skepticism, 1945-1950 -- 3. Mobilizing Science for the Korean War under Truman, 1950-1952 -- 4. Science and the National Security State under Eisenhower, 1952-1957 -- Part II. Ike, Sputnik, and the Rise of PSAC -- 5. Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Creation of PSAC, 1957 -- 6. PSAC and the Launching of NASA, 1957-1960 -- 7. Military Technology, 1957-1960 -- 8. The Search for a Nuclear Test Ban, 1957-1960 -- 9. The Politics of Big Science, 1957-1960 -- 10. The Control of Science Policy under Eisenhower, 1957-1960 -- Part III. The Politics of Technological Skepticism -- 11. Science at the New Frontier under Kennedy, 1960-1963 -- 12. Responding to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, 1962-1963 -- 13. Testing the Limits, 1961-1963 -- 14. "Scientists for Johnson," 1964 -- 15. PSAC, the Vietnam War, and the ABM Debate, 1964-1968 -- 16. The Politics of Technological Dissent under Nixon, 1969-1973 -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453571703321 |
Wang Zuoyue <1963->
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
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