Science As Service - Establishing and Reformulating American Land grant Universities 1865

Informationen zum Autor Alan I Marcus is the author or coauthor of several publications, including The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in the United States Since 1950 , Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam , and Technology in America: A Brief History. Klappentext Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists. Zusammenfassung The first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I. Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of their existence.

Product details

• Authors: Alan I. (EDT)/ Geiger Marcus
• Assisted by: Alan I Marcus (Editor), Alan I. Marcus (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780817318680
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1868-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Nexus; Nexus: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine; Nexus; Nexus: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine; Nexus: New Histories of Scienc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous