TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engel,Jonathan
TI  - TRANSFORMING AMERICAN SCIENCE: universities, the government, and the cold war
T2  - Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine
SN  - 1000864154
U1  - 338.97306 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - ROUTLEDGE
KW  - Research
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Research institutes
KW  - Federal aid to research
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
N2  - 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. This volume is the perfect resource for all those interested in Cold War history and in the history of American science and technology policy
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003363897
ER  -