American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: November 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780262112970
Subjects: History of science; Science funding & policy; c 1945 to c 1960; History - U.S; History: American; USA; History; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; 20th century; Europe; Foreign relations; Science; Technology; United States
First sentence: The premise of this essay is that, given the basic inequality of resources [between the United States and Europe] after World War II, it would have been very difficult for any system of economic linkages or military alliance not to have generated an inter
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