Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, And Human Nature

From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.

• • Author: M. Solovey, H. Cravens
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jan 22, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 287 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1137388358
• • ISBN-13: 9781137388353