Authors:

  • Andrew Jewett

Excerpt

The Social Sciences, Philosophy, and the Cultural Turn in the 1930s USDA. Andrew Jewett, August 27, 2013, Paper. "One of the more unusual attempts by the American state to mobilize academic expertise unfolded in the late 1930s, when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) hired scholars in the “culture and personality” fields and philosophy to aid its efforts to promote economic, social, and cultural change in the countryside..." May require purchase or user account. Link October 11, 2014