To Advance Knowledge : The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940

ISBN-13: 9780765805607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str.

Roger L. Geiger; Roger L. Geiger

Opis

American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacyof American science. Although they emerged as universities in the latenineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of theirmission largely occurred after 1900. ToAdvance Knowledge relates howthese institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the worldof knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science.

Spis treści

I: The Shaping of the American Research University, 1865-1920; The Conditions of University Research, 1900-1920; Research Universities from World War I to 1930; Foundations and University Research; The Privately Funded University Research System; The Research Universities in the 1930s

O autorze

Roger L. Geiger