Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

Jeroen Dongen

ISBN 10: 9004264213 / ISBN 13: 9789004264212

Editore: Koninklijke Brill BV Nov 2015, 2015

Neuware - Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge delves into how the Cold War, as a global phenomenon, shaped local conditions and decisions for science in light of US-Europe relationships. The articles in this volume, edited by Jeroen van Dongen, show how the western network in which science was circulated and produced was strongly conditioned by the state and its international relations. The workings of secrecy, the consequences of US hegemony and decolonization, and the ambitions of post-war recovery attempts were all mediated through the interference of the state and through its relative position in the network. At the same time, hubristic expectations prefigured in the state's relation to science. Codice articolo 9789004264212

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Cold War Science and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge delves into how the Cold War, as a global phenomenon, shaped local conditions and decisions for science in light of US-Europe relationships. The articles in this volume, edited by Jeroen van Dongen, show how the western network in which science was circulated and produced was strongly conditioned by the state and its international relations. The workings of secrecy, the consequences of US hegemony and decolonization, and the ambitions of post-war recovery attempts were all mediated through the interference of the state and through its relative position in the network. At the same time, hubristic expectations prefigured in the state’s relation to science.

Informazioni sull'autore: Jeroen van Dongen (Ph.D. 2002, Amsterdam) is Professor of History of Science at the University of Amsterdam. He also teaches at Utrecht University and is the author of Einstein’s Unification (Cambridge UP, 2010).

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Titolo: Cold War Science and the Transatlantic ...
Casa editrice: Koninklijke Brill BV Nov 2015
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu