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Author Krige, John.

Title American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / John Krige.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Transformations
Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-363) and 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.
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 NATO""""9 Concluding Reflections: Hegemony and “Americanization�""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject Science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Science.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Technology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Technology.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe.
United States.
International relations.
Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1945-
Chronological Term 1945-
Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Krige, John. American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262112973 9780262112970 (DLC) 2006044420 (OCoLC)65065499
ISBN 9780262277631 (electronic book)
0262277638 (electronic book)
9781429477598 (electronic book)
1429477598 (electronic book)
1282097091
9781282097094
0262112973 (alkaline paper)
9780262112970 (alkaline paper)