The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years Hardcover - 1997
by Noam Chomsky (Editor); Richard C. Lewontin; Ira Katznelson
The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. In this groundbreaking collection of newly commissioned essays, many of the country's most prominent intellectuals, including Immanuel Wasserstein and Howard Zinn, discuss the rise of new fields and explore the changing nature of dissent and academic freedom during and since the Cold War.
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The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The vast effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy. After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) took jobs in the burgeoning postwar structure of university-based military research and the intelligence agencies, bringing infusions of government money into many fields. Little has been written about the long-term impact of this close association, despite considerable study of the McCarthy period's destructive impact on academic careers. The Cold War and the University is a groundbreaking collection of newly commissioned essays that takes a bold first step toward the reconstruction of this history. In it, some of the country's most prominent intellectuals use their own experiences to explore what happened to the university in the postwar years and why. In wide-ranging and revealing essays, these writers show the many ways existing disciplines, such as anthropology, were affected by the Cold War ethos; they discuss the rise of new fields, such as area studies; and they explore the changing nature of dissent and academic freedom during and since the Cold War.
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- Title The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
- Author Noam Chomsky (Editor); Richard C. Lewontin; Ira Katznelson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 258
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Press, New York
- Date January 1997
- ISBN 9781565840058 / 1565840054
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.42 x 1.1 in (24.23 x 16.31 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects Cold War, United States - Intellectual life - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96025426
- Dewey Decimal Code 378.730
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/1997, Page 911
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/1996, Page 1777
- Publishers Weekly, 12/09/1996, Page 55
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