Science in the Federal Government

A History of Policies and Activities
revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3381-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Now returned to print with a new preface by the author. Science in the Federal Government remains one of the finest and most comprehensive surveys of the history of American science. A. Hunter Dupree traces the evolution of the relationship bewteen government and science, emphasizing the continuous debate over the form, implementation, even the desirability of national science policy.

From the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the onset of World War II, Dupress shows, federal involvement in science centered on key national interests-geographical exploration and expansion, agriculture and conservation, medicine and public health, industry and the military. Dupree examines the roles and the impact of significant individuals and such institutions as the Smithsonian, the Geological Survey, the national Academy of Sciences, and the National institutes of Health. In an extensive new preface, he discusses developments through the 1980s, paying special attention to the expansion of government-university partnership in the warek of Sputnik.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dupree, A. Hunter

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Preface to the First Edition
1. First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-1800
2. Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-1829
3. Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-1842
4. The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-1861
5. The Great Explorations and Survey's Will, 1829-1861
6. Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-1861
7. The Civil War, 1861-1865
8. The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-1916
9. The Decline of Science in the military Services, 1865-1890
10. The Geological Survey, 1867-1885
11. The Allison Commission and the Department of Sceince, 1884-1886
12. Conservation, 1865-1916
13. Medicine and Public Health, 1865-1916
14. The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment
15. Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-1916
16. The Impact of World War I, 1914-1918
17. Transition to a Business Era, 1919-1929
18. The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
19. Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940
Chronology
Bibliographic Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dupree, A. Hunter
A. Hunter Dupree is George L. Littlefield Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and research associate at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. He is also author of Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities and the editor of several other works.

A. Hunter Dupree is George L. Littlefield Porfessor of History Emeritus at Brown University and research associate at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. He is also author of Asa Gray: 1810-1888 and the editor of several other works.