Science as service establishing and reformulating American land-grant universities, 1865-1930 / edited by Alan I Marcus.
| Other author | Marcus, Alan I, 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015] |
| Description | x, 344 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Nexus |
| Contents | Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890 / Roger L. Geiger -- Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act / Mark R. Finlay -- The Rise and Fall of the Grange's Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873-1901 / Nathan M. Sorber -- Is Milk the Measure of All Things? : Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890-1920 / Micah Rueber -- Engineering National Character : Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity / Paul K. Nienkamp -- People's Colleges for Other Citizens : Black Land-Grant Institutions and the Politics of Educational Expansion in the Post-Civil War Era / Debra A. Reid -- The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities : The Neglected Story / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Generating Knowledge and Power : The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America / Richard F. Hirsh -- Spreading Their Butter Too Thin : Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940 / Sara E. Morris -- Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868-1950 / Bruce E. Seely -- Appendix: US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015000664 |
| ISBN | 9780817318680 (cloth : alk. paper) |