The American Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930

A provocative analysis of the movement to establish a national science program in the early twentieth century. Led by several influential scientists who had participated in centralized scientific enterprises during World War I, the new effort t was an attempt to return to earlier progressive values in the hope of producing science for society's benefit.

Auteur

Ronald C. Tobey is professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955.