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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe
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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe

Author: John Krige
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Series: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Krige
ISBN: 0262112973 9780262112970
OCLC Number: 65065499
Description: viii, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Basic science and the coproduction of American hegemony -- Science and the Marshall Plan -- The place of CERN in U.S. science and foreigh policy -- The Rockefeller Foundation in postwar France: The grant to the CNRS -- The Rockefeller Foundation confronts communism in Europe and anti-communism at home: The case of Boris Ephrussi -- The Ford Foundation, physics, and the intellectual cold war in Europe -- Providing "Trained manpower for freedom": NATO, the Ford Foundation, and MIT -- "Carrying American ideas to the unconverted": Philip Morse's promotion of operations research in NATO -- Concluding reflections: Hegemony and "Americanization".
Series Title: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Responsibility: John Krige.
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