Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science : Historical Studies of American Military and Scientific Interactions by Barton C. Hacker (2007, Perfect)

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Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science : Historical Studies of American Military and Scientific Interactions

Barton C. Hacker

Perfect

English

Military Science, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Library & Information Science / General, American Government / General, History

2007

Technology & Engineering, Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science

170 Pages

9.1in

0.5in

6in

9.3 Oz

U393.5s35 2007

Military and science and technology historians explore selected connections between science and military in the US from the Revolution through the Cold War. Their topics include smallpox inoculation in Washington's army, the electoral response to the naval revolution, Albert B. Sabin and the conquest of epidemic disease, the rise of big engineering during World War II, and global metrology 1961-80. The anthology was generated by the crossing of a temporary Army exhibition at the Smithsonian with a session at the January 2004 meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, DC.

Part 1 Foreword Part 2 1 Science, Technology, and American Military Institutions, from the Revolution through the Cold War Part 3 2 Inoculation in Washington's Army: The Battle Against Smallpox Part 4 3 The Role of the Army and Navy in American Natural History, 1803-1860 Part 5 4 Distorted Support: Pathologies of Weather Warfare Part 6 5 Dreadnoughts and Elections: America's Response to Naval Revolution Part 7 6 Testing Democracy: First World War IQ Testing, from Measuring the Military to Selecting the Student Body Part 8 7 Dr. Albert B. Sabin, the U.S. Army, and the Conquest of Epidemic Disease Part 9 8 A New R&D Order: The Rise of Big Engineering in the Second World War Part 10 9 Submarines Transformed: From Type XXI to Polaris, 1945-1969 Part 11 10 The World According to GARP: Scientific Internationalism and the Construction of Global Meteorology, 1961-1980 Part 12 Index Part 13 About the Editors and Contributors

2007

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