Science as service : establishing and reformulating land-grant universities, 1865-1930 / edited by Alan I. Marcus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marcus, Alan I, 1949- editor.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Nexus : new histories of science, technology, the environment, agriculture & medicine.

Nexus : new histories of science, technology, the environment, agriculture & medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Land Grant Act of 1862.

United States.

Land Grant Act of 1862 (United States).

State universities and colleges--United States--History--19th century.

State universities and colleges.

State universities and colleges--United States--History--20th century.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--19th century.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--20th century.

Technology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--19th century.

Technology.

Technology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--20th century.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher).

Technology--Study and teaching (Higher).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 344 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Sutitle differ on spine & jacket: Establishing and reformulating American land-grant universities, 1865-1930

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

Summary:

Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Alan I Marcus

Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890 / Roger L. Geiger

Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act / Mark R. Finlay

The Rise and Fall of the Grange's Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873-1901 / Nathan M. Sorber

Is Milk the Measure of All Things? : Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890-1920 / Micah Rueber

Engineering National Character : Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity / Paul K. Nienkamp

People's Colleges for Other Citizens : Black Land-Grant Institutions and the Politics of Educational Expansion in the Post-Civil War Era / Debra A. Reid

The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities : The Neglected Story / Robert B. Fairbanks

Generating Knowledge and Power : The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America / Richard F. Hirsh

Spreading Their Butter Too Thin : Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940 / Sara E. Morris

Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868-1950 / Bruce E. Seely

Conclusion / Alan I Marcus

Appendix: US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0817318682

9780817318680

9780817388188

0817388184

OCLC:

898165583

Publisher Number:

99964546392