Science As Service : Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930.

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.

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