Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 351 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816648425
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0816648433
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0816675082
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9780816648429
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9780816648436
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9780816675081
Inhalt:
In The Contours of America's Cold War, Matthew Farish explores new ways of conceptualizing space as part of post-World War II American militarism. He demonstrates how the social sciences were militarized in the early Cold War period, producing spatial knowledge that was of immediate use to the state as it sought to expand its reach across the globe. Geographic knowledge generated for the Cold War was a form of power, Farish argues, and it was given an urgency in the panels, advisory boards, and study groups established to address the challenges of an atomic world
Inhalt:
Introduction : a history of cold war spaces -- Global views : geopolitics, science, and culture -- Regional intelligence : the militarization of geographical knowledge -- Illuminating the terrain : social science finds its targets -- The cybernetic continent : North America as defense laboratory -- Anxious urbanism : strategies for the atomic city -- Conclusion : into space
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Farish, Matthew Contours of America's cold war Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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