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Innocent experiments : childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States / Rebecca Onion.
Van Pelt Library Q175.52.U6 O55 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onion, Rebecca, author.
- Series:
- Studies in United States culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--United States.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science projects.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Science projects--Social aspects--United States.
- Science--Study and teaching--United States.
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: A curious century
- 1. Wonder house : the Brooklyn Children's Museum as beautiful dream
- 2. Science in the basement : selling the home lab in the interwar years
- 3. Embryo scientists : finding and saving postwar "science talent"
- 4. Space cadets and rocket boys : policing the masculinity of scientific enthusiasms
- 5. The Exploratorium and the persistence of innocent science
- Conclusion: Looking closer at "kids are little scientists".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469629469
- 1469629461
- 9781469629476
- 146962947X
- OCLC:
- 942745136
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