Universities and empire
Subtitle: money and politics in the social sciences during the Cold War
By: edited and introduced by Christopher Simpson.
Contributors: Simpson, Christopher.
Series: [Cold War and the university]
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Social sciences -- Research -- Political aspects -- United States; Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Other titles: Money and politics in the social sciences during the Cold War; Universities & empire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series statement from jacket.
Table of contents: title: Universities, empire, and the production of knowledge : an introduction / Christopher Simpson; title: Scientists as spies / Franz Boas; title: Project Troy and the Cold War annexation of the social sciences / Allan A. Needell; title: Notes on foreign economic policy / Max F. Millikan and Walt R. Rostow; title: Play it again Sam : the practice and apology of development / Irene L. Gendzier; title: Project Camelot and the career of Cold War psychology / Ellen Herman; title: The Cold War and the African American expatriate community in Nkrumah's Ghana / Kevin Gaines; title: Boundary displacement : area studies and international studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings; title: Writing history in the present tense : Cold War-era discursive strategies of Soviet historians of science and technology / Slava Gerovitch; title: The new corporate yen for scholarship / Lawrence Soley.