Cold War Social Science

Cold War Social Science
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Synopsis Cold War Social Science by : M. Solovey

Download or read book Cold War Social Science written by M. Solovey and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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