G reg W hitesides . Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II

Greg Whitesides’s Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II presents a comprehensive, insightful, and timely survey on the subject that should prove valuable to historians and anyone else interested in how science, technology, and American foreign policy mixed together to shape the complex, globalized world we live in today. Filling a gap, the book successfully bridges American diplomatic history and the history of science and technology while also shedding illuminating light on other topics such as Cold War history and environmental history. Mining an impressive range of recent scholarly studies as well as some unique—mainly digital—primary sources, Whitesides tells a fascinating story of the use of science and technology in American diplomacy that pivoted on a radical transformation that took place in the 1970s. For the period before that turning point, the book portrays a seamless transition between the deployment of science and technology for national and international

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