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"Viewing knowledge as travelling between sites, rather than flowing like currents through them or diffusing out from them, the contributors to this collection stress the human intention which shapes and drives how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed to serve differing and uneven interests, constraints, and environments. The chapters consider both what knowledge travels and how it travels across borders of varying permeability. They home in on a vast range of platforms and objects of knowledge, from tangible commodities--like hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, and high performance computers--to the more conceptual apparatuses of telecommunications, statistics, and food sovereignty. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North in its focus, tracking how knowledge travels in all directions across the borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, China, Angola, and Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the US and the UK. The variety of kinds of knowledge that are addressed in the chapters brings forth an extraordinary array of state and non-state actors and institutions committed to performing the work needed to move knowledge across national borders."

Introduction: writing the transnational history of science and technology / John Krige -- The US regulatory state

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology / Krige, John -- Part I. The US Regulatory State -- Chapter 1. Restricting the Transnational Movement of "Knowledgeable Bodies": The Interplay of US Visa Restrictions and Export Controls in the Cold War / Daniels, Mario -- Chapter 2. Export Controls as Instruments to Regulate Knowledge Acquisition in a Globalizing Economy / Krige, John -- Part II. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts -- Chapter 3. California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja / Saraiva, Tiago -- Chapter 4. Modalities of Modernization: American Technic in Colonial and Postcolonial India / Kumar, Prakash -- Chapter 5. Transnational Knowledge, American Hegemony: Social Scientists in US-Occupied Japan / Kingsberg Kadia, Miriam -- Chapter 6. Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya / Siddiqi, Asif -- Chapter 7. Bringing the Environment Back In: A Transnational History of Landsat / Maher, Neil M. -- Part III. Individual Identities in Flux -- Chapter 8. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Actor at the Crossroad of World War II Science Mobilization / Minor, Adriana -- Chapter 9. The Officer's Three Names: The Formal, Familiar, and Bureaucratic in the Transnational History of Scientific Fellowships / Barany, Michael J. -- Chapter 10. Scientific Exchanges between the United States and Brazil in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Movements / Freire, Olival / Silva, Indianara -- Chapter 11. The Transnational Physical Science Study Committee: The Evolving Nation in the World of Science and Education (1945–1975) / Simon, Josep -- Part IV. The Nuclear Regime -- Chapter 12. Technical Assistance in Movement: Nuclear Knowledge Crosses Latin American Borders / Mateos, Gisela / Suárez-Díaz, Edna -- Chapter 13. Controlled Exchanges: Public-Private Hybridity, Transnational Networking, and Knowledge Circulation in US-China Scientific Discourse on Nuclear Arms Control / Wang, Zuoyue -- Afterword: Reflections on Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology / Barany, Michael J. / Krige, John -- Contributors -- Index

Introduction : Technological Collaboration, Nonproliferation and American Soft Power -- The U.S. and the promotion of Euratom, 1955-56 : Integration as an instrument of nuclear nonproliferation -- The U.S. and Euratom, 1957-58 : Constructing a Joint program for nuclear power --"A substantial sop" or "positive disarmament"? : Johnson, Erhard and bilateral space collaboration -- Integration and the non-proliferation of ballistic missiles : the U.S., the U.K. and ELDO, 1966 -- Classification, Collaboration and Competition : U.S./U.K. Relationships in Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment in the 1960s -- Conclusion : Technological collaboration and nonproliferation