How Knowledge Moves
Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology
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John Krige
Part I The US Regulatory State
Chapter 1 Restricting the Transnational Movement of “Knowledgeable Bodies”: The Interplay of US Visa Restrictions and Export Controls in the Cold War
Mario Daniels
Chapter 2 Export Controls as Instruments to Regulate Knowledge Acquisition in a Globalizing Economy
John Krige
Part II Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Chapter 3 California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja
Tiago Saraiva
Chapter 4 Modalities of Modernization: American Technic in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Prakash Kumar
Chapter 5 Transnational Knowledge, American Hegemony: Social Scientists in US-Occupied Japan
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
Chapter 6 Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya
Asif Siddiqi
Chapter 7 Bringing the Environment Back In: A Transnational History of Landsat
Neil M. Maher
Part III Individuals in Flux
Chapter 8 Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Actor at the Crossroad of World War II Science Mobilization
Adriana Minor
Chapter 9 The Officer’s Three Names: The Formal, Familiar, and Bureaucratic in the Transnational History of Scientific Fellowships
Michael J. Barany
Chapter 10 Scientific Exchanges between the United States and Brazil in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Movements
Olival Freire Jr. and Indianara Silva
Chapter 11 The Transnational Physical Science Study Committee: The Evolving Nation in the World of Science and Education (1945–1975)
Josep Simon
Part IV The Nuclear Regime
Chapter 12 Technical Assistance in Movement: Nuclear Knowledge Crosses Latin American Borders
Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
Chapter 13 Controlled Exchanges: Public-Private Hybridity, Transnational Networking, and Knowledge Circulation in US-China Scientific Discourse on Nuclear Arms Control
Zuoyue Wang
Afterword: Reflections on Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology
Michael J. Barany and John Krige
List of Contributors
Index
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won
History: General History | History of Ideas | History of Technology
Physical Sciences: History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
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