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Service as mandate : how American land-grant universities shaped the modern world, 1920-2015 / [edited by] Alan I. Marcus.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- NEXUS
- Nexus
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State universities and colleges--United States--History--20th century.
- State universities and colleges.
- State universities and colleges--United States--History--21st century.
- Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--21st century.
- Technology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--20th century.
- Technology.
- Technology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History--21st century.
- United States. Land Grant Act of 1862.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Completing a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Science as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Alan I Marcus; Part One: Whose University?; 1. Men in the Food Lab, Women in the Engine Shop: Gendered Stereotype Breaking in Land-Grant Technical Programs / Amy Sue Bix; 2. What's in a Name?: Students and Alumni and the Meaning of Home Economics / Gwen Kay; 3. The 1890 Land-Grant Colleges: From the New Deal to the Black Farmers' Class-Action Lawsuit, 1930s-2010s / Valerie Grim; Part Two: From National to Local; 4. The Evolution of a Public Research System: The Economic Research Service and the Land-Grant Universities / Anne B. Effland
- 5. The New Students: The GI Bill and Housing at Iowa State / David L. Harmon6. The Purposes of Higher Education: The Morrill Act and Military Science / Donald A. Downs; 7. Taking Off: National Security, Identity, and Aerospace Engineering at Land-Grant Universities, 1957-1972 / Erinn McComb; Part Three: Modern Food, Modern Society; 8. Fruit Cocktail, Rations, and By-Products: The University of California-Berkeley and Modern Food / Stephanie Statz; 9. "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy": Land-Grant Social Scientists and Modernity from the Country Life Movement to the Cold War / Hamilton Cravens
- Part Four: The New Agriculture10. "Havens for Golf-Turf Science": New Agrarians and the Land-Grant Legacy / Melissa Walker; 11. The Sustainable Agriculture Movement and Land-Grant Universities: A Contentious History / Robert C. McMath; 12. Teaching Agricultural History at Land-Grant Institutions / R. Douglas Hurt; Conclusion / Alan I Marcus; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8897-4
- OCLC:
- 936608822
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