Science as service : establishing and reformulating American land-grant universities, 1865-1930 /
edited by Alan I Marcus.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Nexus .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890 / Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act / The Rise and Fall of the Grange's Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873-1901 / Is Milk the Measure of All Things? : Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890-1920 / Engineering National Character : Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity / People's Colleges for Other Citizens : Black Land-Grant Institutions and the Politics of Educational Expansion in the Post-Civil War Era / The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities : The Neglected Story / Generating Knowledge and Power : The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America / Spreading Their Butter Too Thin : Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940 / Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868-1950 / Appendix: US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions. Roger L. Geiger -- Mark R. Finlay -- Nathan M. Sorber -- Micah Rueber -- Paul K. Nienkamp -- Debra A. Reid -- Robert B. Fairbanks -- Richard F. Hirsh -- Sara E. Morris -- Bruce E. Seely --
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United States -- Land Grant Act of 1862.
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