Service As Mandate : How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920-2015.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Alan I Marcus -- Part One: Whose University? -- 1. Men in the Food Lab, Women in the Engine Shop: Gendered Stereotype Breaking in Land-Grant Technical Programs / Amy Sue Bix -- 2. What's in a Name?: Students and Alumni and the Meaning of Home Economics / Gwen Kay -- 3. The 1890 Land-Grant Colleges: From the New Deal to the Black Farmers' Class-Action Lawsuit, 1930s-2010s / Valerie Grim -- Part Two: From National to Local -- 4. The Evolution of a Public Research System: The Economic Research Service and the Land-Grant Universities / Anne B. Effland -- 5. The New Students: The GI Bill and Housing at Iowa State / David L. Harmon -- 6. The Purposes of Higher Education: The Morrill Act and Military Science / Donald A. Downs -- 7. Taking Off: National Security, Identity, and Aerospace Engineering at Land-Grant Universities, 1957-1972 / Erinn McComb -- Part Three: Modern Food, Modern Society -- 8. Fruit Cocktail, Rations, and By-Products: The University of California-Berkeley and Modern Food / Stephanie Statz -- 9. "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy": Land-Grant Social Scientists and Modernity from the Country Life Movement to the Cold War / Hamilton Cravens -- Part Four: The New Agriculture -- 10. "Havens for Golf-Turf Science": New Agrarians and the Land-Grant Legacy / Melissa Walker -- 11. The Sustainable Agriculture Movement and Land-Grant Universities: A Contentious History / Robert C. McMath -- 12. Teaching Agricultural History at Land-Grant Institutions / R. Douglas Hurt -- Conclusion / Alan I Marcus -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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