How knowledge moves : writing the transnational history of science and technology / edited by John Krige.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krige, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology transfer--United States--History--20th century.

Technology transfer.

Science--United States--International cooperation--History--20th century.

Science.

Technology transfer--Cross-cultural studies.

Science--International cooperation--Cross-cultural studies.

Science--International cooperation.

International cooperation.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction: writing the transnational history of science and technology / John Krige

The US regulatory state. Restricting the transnational movement of "knowledgeable bodies": the interplay of US visa restrictions and export controls in the Cold War / Mario Daniels ; Export controls as instruments to regulate knowledge acquisition in a globalizing economy / John Krige

Colonial and postcolonial contexts. California cloning in French Algeria: rooting pieds noirs and uprooting fellahs in the orange groves of the Mitidja / Tiago Saraiva ; Modalities of modernization: American technic in colonial and postcolonial India / Prakash Kumar ; Transnational knowledge, American hegemony: social scientists in US-occupied Japan / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia ; Dispersed sites: San Marco and the launch from Kenya / Asif Siddiqi ; Bringing the environment back in: a transnational history of Landsat / Neil M. Maher

Individuals in flux. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: the rise and fall of a transnational actor at the crossroad of World War II science mobilization / Adriana Minor ; The officer's three names: the formal, familiar, and bureaucratic in the transnational history of scientific fellowships / Michael J. Barany ; Scientific exchanges between the United States and Brazil in the twentieth century: cultural diplomacy and transnational movements / Olival Freire Jr. and Indianara Silva ; The transnational physical science study committee: the evolving nation in the world of science and education (1945-1975) / Josep Simon

The nuclear regime. Technical assistance in movement: nuclear knowledge crosses Latin American borders / Gisela Mateos and Edna Suarez-Diaz ; Controlled exchanges: public-private hybridity, transnational networking, and knowledge circulation in US-China scientific discourse on nuclear arms control / Zuoyue Wang

Afterword: reflections on writing the transnational history of science and technology / Michael J. Barany and John Krige.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226605852

022660585X

9780226605999

022660599X

OCLC:

1042082710