Title: Universities and empire : money and politics in the social sciences during the Cold War /
Authors: Simpson, Christopher.
Publisher: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Education, Higher Political aspects United States History; Cold War Study and teaching (Higher) United States.; Social sciences Research Political aspects United States.; Education, Higher United States History; United States Intellectual life
Contents: Universities, empire, and the production of knowledge : an introdution / Christopher Simpson -- Scientists as spies / Franz Boas -- Project Troy and the cold war annexation of the social sciences / Allan A. Needell -- Notes on foreign economic policy / Max F. Millikan and Walt W. Rostow -- Play it again Sam : the practice and apology of development / Irene L. Gendzier -- Project Camelot and the career of cold war psychology / Ellen Herman -- The cold war and the African American expatriate community in Nkrumah's Ghana / Kevin Gaines -- Boundary displacement : area studies and international studies during and after the cold war / Bruce Cumings -- Writing history in the present tense : cold war-era discursive strategies of Soviet historians of science and technology / Slava Gerovitch -- The new corporate yen for scholarship / Lawrence Soley.