Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature

Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America; T.M.Porter Cold War Social Science: Spectre, Reality, or Useful Concept?; M.Solovey PART I: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54; D.C.Engerman Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking; K.Tolon 'It was All Connected': Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America; J.Martin-Nielsen Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard's Department of Social Relations; J.Isaac PART II: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Producing Reason; H.Heyck Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era; H.Cravens From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex; J.Rohde Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship; H.Brick PART III: HUMAN NATURE Maintaining Humans; E.Jones-Imhotep Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War; M.Bycroft An Anthropologist on TV: Ashley Montagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945-1960; N.Weidman Cold War Emotions: The War over Human Nature; M.Vicedo