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    (1 other version)FOCUS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND THE COLD WAR: Introduction.Hunter Heyck & David Kaiser - 2010 - Isis 101 (2):362-366.
    ABSTRACT Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. During those same twenty years, scholarship on science, technology, and the state during the Cold War era has expanded dramatically. Building on major studies of physics in the American context—often couched in terms of “big science”—recent work has broached scientific efforts in other domains as well, scrutinizing Cold War scholarship in increasingly international and comparative (...)
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    The Organizational Revolution and the Human Sciences.Hunter Heyck - 2014 - Isis 105 (1):1-31.
    ABSTRACT This essay argues that a new way of understanding science and nature emerged and flourished in the human sciences in America between roughly 1920 and 1970. This new outlook was characterized by the prefiguration of all subjects of study as systems defined by their structures, not their components. Further, the essay argues that the rise of this new outlook was closely linked to the Organizational Revolution in American society, which provided new sets of problems, new patrons, and new control (...)
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    Leviathan and the ink blot: The politics of the mind and its sciences in Cold War America.Hunter Heyck - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 53:114-117.
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    (1 other version)David C. Engerman. Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. xii + 459 pp., illus., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. $34.95. [REVIEW]Hunter Heyck - 2011 - Isis 102 (1):201-202.
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    Joel Isaac;, Duncan Bell . Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War. 302 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. $29.95 .Joy Rohde. Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War. x + 213 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 2013. $29.95. [REVIEW]Hunter Heyck - 2015 - Isis 106 (3):741-742.
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