Science as service : establishing and reformulating land-grant universities, 1865-1930
Alan I Marcus (Editor)
The first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I. Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of their existence.
Print Book, English, 2015
The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2015
History
x, 344 pages ; 24 cm
9780817318680, 9780817388188, 0817318682, 0817388184
1029427073
Introduction / Alan I Marcus
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
Conclusion / Alan I Marcus
Appendix: US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions