Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology 1
4. Part I. The US Regulatory State
5. Chapter 1. Restricting the Transnational Movement of “Knowledgeable Bodies”: The Interplay of US Visa Restrictions and Export Controls in the Cold War 35
6. Chapter 2. Export Controls as Instruments to Regulate Knowledge Acquisition in a Globalizing Economy 62
7. Part II. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
8. Chapter 3. California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja 95
9. Chapter 4. Modalities of Modernization: American Technic in Colonial and Postcolonial India 120
10. Chapter 5. Transnational Knowledge, American Hegemony: Social Scientists in US-Occupied Japan 149
11. Chapter 6. Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya 175
12. Chapter 7. Bringing the Environment Back In: A Transnational History of Landsat 201
13. Part III. Individual Identities in Flux
14. Chapter 8. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Actor at the Crossroad of World War II Science Mobilization 227
15. Chapter 9. The Officer’s Three Names: The Formal, Familiar, and Bureaucratic in the Transnational History of Scientific Fellowships 254
16. Chapter 10. Scientific Exchanges between the United States and Brazil in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Movements 281
17. Chapter 11. The Transnational Physical Science Study Committee: The Evolving Nation in the World of Science and Education (1945–1975) 308
18. Part IV. The Nuclear Regime
19. Chapter 12. Technical Assistance in Movement: Nuclear Knowledge Crosses Latin American Borders 345
20. Chapter 13. Controlled Exchanges: Public-Private Hybridity, Transnational Networking, and Knowledge Circulation in US-China Scientific Discourse on Nuclear Arms Control 368
21. Afterword: Reflections on Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology 411
22. Contributors 419
23. Index 423