Research and relevant knowledge : American research universities since World War II / Roger L. Geiger

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 411 pages : 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-404) and index. Contents; 1. Origins of the Federal Research Economy. 1. The Organization of Research for War. 2. Universities and War Research. 3. Postwar Federal Science Policy. 4. The Postwar Federal Research Economy -- 2. Research Universities in the Postwar Era, 1945-1957. 1. From War to Peace to Cold War. 2. The Burdens of Finance. 3. Organized Research in Postwar Universities. 4. An Autonomous Research Mission and Its Discontents -- 3. The Development of Universities in the Postwar Era. 1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2. The University of California, Berkeley. 3. Yale University -- 4. Private Foundations and the Research Universities, 1945-1960. 1. Foundations and Academic Social Science. 2. Foundation Support for University Advancement -- 5. University Advancement from the Postwar Era to the 1960s. 1. Stanford University. 2. The University of California, Los Angeles. 3. The University of Pittsburgh -- 6. The Transformation of Federal Research Support in the Sputnik Era. [cont,] Subjects; Research United States History. Universities and colleges Research United States History. Science and state United States History.