American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262112973 | edition 2006 | PDF | 384 pages | 14,9 mb
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262112973 | edition 2006 | PDF | 384 pages | 14,9 mb
In 1945, the United States was not only the strongest economic and military power in the world; it was also the world's leader in science and technology. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe, John Krige describes the efforts of influential figures in the United States to model postwar scientific practices and institutions in Western Europe on those in America. They mobilized political and financial support to promote not just America's scientific and technological agendas in Western Europe but its Cold War political and ideological agendas as well.