Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe qualities that made Science in the Federal Government exemplary in 1957 still do so today. The book demonstrates that the history of science can be done as an integral part of political and social history, that the history of institutions need not be narrow and dull if it includes the human dimension of personalities and elites and social relationships. It succeeds admirably in treating technical aspects of science without letting them dominate the central organizational and human themes. Dupree's achievement has been and still is reassuring and inspiring. Isis
Table of ContentsPreface
Preface to the First Edition
1. First Attempts to Form a Policy, 1787-1800
2. Theory and Action in the Jeffersonian Era, 1800-1829
3. Practical Achievements in the Age of the Common Man, 1829-1842
4. The Fulfillment of Smithson's Will, 1829-1861
5. The Great Explorations and Survey's Will, 1829-1861
6. Bache and the Quest for a Central Scientific Organization, 1851-1861
7. The Civil War, 1861-1865
8. The Evolution of Research in Agriculture, 1862-1916
9. The Decline of Science in the military Services, 1865-1890
10. The Geological Survey, 1867-1885
11. The Allison Commission and the Department of Sceince, 1884-1886
12. Conservation, 1865-1916
13. Medicine and Public Health, 1865-1916
14. The Completion of the Federal Scientific Establishment
15. Patterns of Government Research in Modern America, 1865-1916
16. The Impact of World War I, 1914-1918
17. Transition to a Business Era, 1919-1929
18. The Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
19. Prospect and Retrospect at the Beginning of a New Era, 1940
Chronology
Bibliographic Notes
References
Index
