Marcus, Alan I. <br/><br/>
Science As Service :  Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (357 pages) 
 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine Series ;  v.1 .
 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Alan I Marcus -- 1. Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890 / Roger L. Geiger -- Part One: Science Assumes Center Stage -- 2. Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act / Mark R. Finlay -- 3. The Rise and Fall of the Grange's Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873-1901 / Nathan M. Sorber -- 4. Is Milk the Measure of All Things? Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890-1920 / Micah Rueber -- 5. Engineering National Character: Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity / Paul K. Nienkamp -- 6. 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 -- Part Two: Extending the Scientific/Technical Toolbox -- 7. The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities: The Neglected Story / Robert B. Fairbanks -- 8. Generating Knowledge and Power: The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America / Richard F. Hirsh -- 9. Spreading Their Butter Too Thin: Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940 / Sara E. Morris -- 10. 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 -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780817388188 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States.-Land Grant Act of 1862.<br/>State universities and colleges-United States-History-19th century.<br/>State universities and colleges-United States-History-20th century.<br/>Science-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Science-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States-History-20th century.<br/>Technology-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States-History-19th century.<br/>Technology-Study and teaching (Higher)-United States-History-20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB2329 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>378/.053