Service As Mandate - How American Land grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920

Informationen zum Autor Alan I Marcus is the editor of Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930 and the author or coauthor of several publications, including The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in the United States Since 1950 ; Cancer from Beef: The DES Controversy, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence in Modern America ; and Technology in America: A Brief History . Klappentext Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the US and the world. Alan I. Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alan I. (EDT)/ Bix Marcus
• Assisted by: Alan I Marcus (Editor), Alan I. Marcus (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780817318888
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1888-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Nexus; Nexus; Nexus: New Histories of Scienc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous