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

  • Krige, John.
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[2006], ©2006
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006.

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viii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and index.

Contents

Basic science and the coproduction of American hegemony -- Science and the Marshall plan -- The place of CERN in U.S. science and foreign 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 intellectural 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 relfections : hegemony and "Americanization."

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  • 0262112973
  • 9780262112970