General Information

Language

English.

Published

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c1997.

Physical Description

xxvii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Chomsky, Noam.

Contents/Summary

Summary

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.

Subjects

Subject

Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.

Cold War.

Education, Higher > United States > History > 20th century.

United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Noam Chomsky ... [et al.].

Content

Introduction / David Montgomery -- The Cold War and the Transformation of the Academy / R. C. Lewontin -- The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War: Repression and Resistance / Howard Zinn -- English and the Cold War / Richard Ohmann -- The Phantom Factor: Impact of the Cold War on Anthropology / Laura Nader -- Doing Earth Science Research During the Cold War / Ray Siever -- The Cold War and the University / Noam Chomsky -- The Unintended Consequences of Cold War Area Studies / Immanuel Wallerstein -- The Subtle Politics of Developing Emergency: Political Science as Liberal Guardianship / Ira Katznelson.

ISBN

1565840054

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	378.73/09044 COL		Reference	-

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