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Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War (2013)

Rohde, Joy (Author)

Cornell University Press

ISBN: 9780801449673

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 213 pp.; ill.; index; bibl.
Language: English

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Cold War Social sciences Science and government Government sponsored science Science and ideology Democracy Science and war; science and the military 20th century United States

In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War--era military-sponsored social research. Seeking expert knowledge that would enable the United States to contain communism, the Pentagon turned to social scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life.

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Review Light, Jennifer (2014) Review of "Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 328-329). unapi

Review Heyck, Hunter (2015) Review of "Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 741-742). unapi

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