Science as service establishing and reformulating American land-grant universities, 1865-1930 / edited by Alan I Marcus.

SeriesNexus
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index.
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LCCN 2015000664
ISBN9780817318680 (cloth : alk. paper)