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| Science in American Society: A Generation of Historical Debate, with Headnote and Afterword | 2 | |
| The Process of Professionalization in America Science: The Emergent Period, 1820-1860 | 21 | |
| The Dilemmas of Science in the United States: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey | 37 | |
| Parlors, Primers, and Public Schooling: Education for Science in Nineteenth-Century America | 61 | |
| Sources of Misconception on the Role of Science in the Nineteenth-Century American College | 83 | |
| The Ph.D. Machine: Building on the Collegiate Base | 98 | |
| "Women's Work" in Science, 1880-1910 | 123 | |
| Mathematics and the Physical Sciences in America, 1880-1930 | 141 | |
| The Development of High School Biology: New York City, 1900-1925 | 160 | |
| Ionists in Industry: Physical Chemistry at General Electric, 1900-1915 | 187 | |
| Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History | 203 | |
| Political Animals: The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America | 228 | |
| MIT and the Federal "Angel": Academic R & D and Federal-Private Cooperation before World War II | 247 | |
| Inventing a Climate of Opinion: Vannevar Bush and the Decision to Build the Bomb | 273 | |
| The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science - The Endless Frontier | 297 | |
| Science as a Weapon in Kulturkampfe in the United States During and After World War II | 320 | |
| Appendix: Isis Articles on American Science, 1912-1995 | 335 | |
| Contributors and Editors | 341 |
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Dave Laborde
reviewed The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis on January 17, 2015
The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis
An excellent scholarly work by Dangerfield, covering the period 1812-1829 (or, basically from the War of 1812 up to Andrew Jackson's election to the Presidency). Dangerfield goes in-depth into the negotiations with Great Britain to end the War of 1812. He then talks about the political climate of the U.S. at that time. Much is made of the agrarian interests vs. the Eastern bankers who wanted high tariffs. Dangerfield also gives mini-biographies of the many political titans that dominated the scene back then: Clay, Adams, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Gallatin, Calhoun, Rush, and Van Buren.
James Monroe's administration is thoroughly reviewed - Dangerfield highlighting how "The Era of Good Feelings" was more of a misnomer than a truth as there was a lot of underlying, sectional tension in the country. Dangerfield does a good job dissecting the disputed election of 1824, the vicious background of Andrew Jackson, the piety of John Quincy Adams, and the political gamesmanship of Martin Van Buren.
I am not giving this more stars only because I found this to be a dense read at times - Dangerfield really explores U.S.-British relations and it is easy to get lost with all of the personalities and issues involved, for example. Plus, he used some uncommon words such as "verdant" and "casuistry," which is a good thing because it forced me to learn what those words meant, but it slowed me down in reading.
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