Hamilton Cravens
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Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Race and Science
Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America
By Paul Farber and Hamilton Cravens
Oregon State University Press
The Social Sciences Go to Washington
The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age
Edited by Hamilton Cravens
Rutgers University Press
What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social scientists sought to change existing policies in welfare, public health, urban policy, national defense, environmental policy, and science and technology policy, and the ways they tried to influence future policies.
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the relationships between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies
- Copyright year: 1996
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