Introduction
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. During those same twenty years, scholarship on science, technology, and the state during the Cold War era has expanded dramatically. Building on major studies of p...
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| description | Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. During those same twenty years, scholarship on science, technology, and the state during the Cold War era has expanded dramatically. Building on major studies of physics in the American context-often couched in terms of "big science"-recent work has broached scientific efforts in other domains as well, scrutinizing Cold War scholarship in increasingly international and comparative frameworks. The essays in this Focus section take stock of current thinking about science and the Cold War, revisiting the question of how best to understand tangled (and sometimes surprising) relationships between government patronage and the world of ideas. © 2010 by The History of Science Society. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1167312022-10-01T16:58:41Z Introduction Heyck, Hunter Kaiser, David I Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Kaiser, David I Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. During those same twenty years, scholarship on science, technology, and the state during the Cold War era has expanded dramatically. Building on major studies of physics in the American context-often couched in terms of "big science"-recent work has broached scientific efforts in other domains as well, scrutinizing Cold War scholarship in increasingly international and comparative frameworks. The essays in this Focus section take stock of current thinking about science and the Cold War, revisiting the question of how best to understand tangled (and sometimes surprising) relationships between government patronage and the world of ideas. © 2010 by The History of Science Society. 2018-07-02T19:13:08Z 2018-07-02T19:13:08Z 2010-06 2018-06-04T15:18:58Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0021-1753 1545-6994 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116731 Heyck, Hunter, and David Kaiser. “Introduction.” Isis, vol. 101, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 362–66. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653097 Isis Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press |
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