Cold War Social Science Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature

From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Solovey, Mark (Editor), Cravens, Hamilton (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2012, 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War
Physical Description:XVII, 270 p. 3 illus online resource
ISBN:9781137013224