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November 2006
6 x 9, 384 pp.
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0-262-11297-3
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978-0-262-11297-0

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Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
John Krige

Acknowledgmentsvii
1.Basic Science and the Coproduction of American Hegemony
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2.Science and the Marshall Plan15
3.The Place of CERN in U.S. Science and Foreign Policy57
5.The Rockefeller Foundation Confronts Communism in Europe and Anti-Communism at Home
The Case of Boris Ephrussi
115
6.The Ford Foundation, Physicsm and the Intellectual Cold War in Europe153
7.Providing "Trained Manpower for Freedom"
NATO, the Ford Foundation, and MIT
191
8."Carrying American Ideas to the Unconverted"
Philip Morse's Promotion of Operations Research in NATO
227
9.Concluding Reflections
Hegemony and "Americanization"
253
Notes271
Bibliography343
Index
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