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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459770903321

Autore

Sage Daniel <1980->

Titolo

How outer space made America : geography, organization and the cosmic sublime / / Daniel Sage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-317-12078-7

1-4724-2367-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

629.4/10973

Soggetti

Astronautics - United States - History

Astronautics - Social aspects - United States

National characteristics, American

Electronic books.

Outer space Exploration United States History

Outer space Exploration Social aspects United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

America as transcendental -- Framing a world beyond -- Placing the moon -- Technocracy in the space age -- Whose body for whose future? -- Was revolution ever in the air? -- Memorializing the future -- Traumatizing spaceflight -- Critical cosmopolitics.

Sommario/riassunto

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.