American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / Jessica Wang.
American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / Jessica Wang.
American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / Jessica Wang.
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Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
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T0391256
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English
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xii, 375p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Competing Political Visions for Postwar Science: Scientists and Science Legislation, 1945-1947 -- 2. Fear, Suspicion, and the Surveillance State: The FAS, HUAC, and the FBI, 1945-1948 -- 3. Individual Encounters I: Scientists and AEC Security, 1946-1948 -- 4. Individual Encounters II: Scientists...
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Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
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North Carolina
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c1999.
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American Science in an Age of Anxiety is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. Through the extensive use of archival sources - including recently released FBI files - as well as published primary and secondary sources, Jessica Wang demonstrates the stifling effects of...
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American science in an age of anxiety : scientists, anticommunism, and the cold war / Jessica Wang.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index.
Transferred from N509.73/24.
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c1999.
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T0391256
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0807847496(pbk.) :
080782447X (alk. paper)
9780807847497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807847496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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9780807847497(pbk.) :
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509.73
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