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Author Krige, John.

Title American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / John Krige
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages)
Series Transformations
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/History
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-363) and index
Notes English
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Subject Science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Technology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
SCIENCE -- History.
Diplomatic relations
Science
Technology
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe
Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045684
Subject Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262277631
0262277638
9781429477598
1429477598
1282097091
9781282097094
9786612097096
6612097094