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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krige, John.

Series:

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Europe--History--20th century.

Science.

Technology--Europe--History--20th century.

Technology.

United States--Foreign relations--Europe.

United States.

Europe--Foreign relations--United States.

Europe.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Europe--Foreign relations--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-09709-1

9786612097096

0-262-27763-8

1-4294-7759-8

OCLC:

614968172