Deep Freeze : The Unites States, the International Geophysical Year, and the origins of Antarctica's Age of Science / / Dian Olson Belanger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910526311803321
• Autore: Belanger Dian Olson <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colo. : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2006; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-4571-1065-2; 1-60732-067-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (529 p.) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 919.8/9
• Soggetti: International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958; Electronic books.; Antarctica Discovery and exploration; Antarctica Discovery and exploration American
• 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: Introduction -- Prologue: the call of the ice -- The international geophysical year: idea to reality -- All hands on deck: logistics for the high latitudes -- Gaining a foothold: operations base at McMurdo Sound -- Little America V: science flagship on the ice shelf -- Marie Byrd Land: Crevasse Junction, privation stations -- South Pole: dropped from the sky -- The gap stations: Hallett, Wilkes, m and Ellsworth -- On the eve: people, preparations, policies -- Comprehending the cold: Antarctic weather quest -- Looking up: the physics of the atmosphere -- Under foot: ice by the mile -- Life on the ice: the experience -- Science and peace, continuity and change.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice. In the tense 1950's, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S. scientists, maintained by the Navy's Operation Deep Freeze, came together in Antarctica with counterparts from eleven other countries to ; participate in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). On July 1, 1957, they began systematic, simultaneous scientific observations of the south-polar ice and atmosphere. Their collaborative success over eighteen months inspired the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which formalized their peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge. Still building on the achievements of the individuals and distrustful nations thrown together by the IGY from mutually wary military, scientific, and political cultures, science prospers today and peace endures. The year 2007 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the IGY and the commencement of a new International Polar Year—a compelling moment to review what a singular enterprise accomplished in a troubled time. Belanger draws from interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official records to weave together the first thorough study of the dawn of Antarctica's scientific age. Deep Freeze offers absorbing reading for those who have ventured onto Antarctic ice and those who dream of it, as well as historians, scientists, and policy makers.

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• Record Nr.: UNISA996396439603316
• Autore: S. N (Sylvester Norris), <1572-1630.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [St. Omer, : English College Press], M. DC. XXIIII [1624]
• Descrizione fisica: 63, [1] p
• Altri autori (Persone): WalkerGeorge <1581?-1651.>
• Soggetti: Great Britain Church history 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Permissu superiorum."; Place of publication and publisher suggested by STC (2nd ed.).; Signatures: A-H⁴.; Marginal notes.; Reproduction of original in the British Library.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Beneficial bombing : the progressive foundations of American air power, 1917-1945 / / Mark Clodfelter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785688003321
• Autore: Clodfelter Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-05109-5; 9786613051097; 0-8032-3449-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Collana: Studies in war, society, and the military
• Disciplina: 358.4/14097309041
• Soggetti: Bombing, Aerial - United States - History - 20th century; Air power - United States - History - 20th century; Precision bombing - United States - History - 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 - Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations; Progressivism (United States politics) - History - 20th century
• 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: Introduction -- Genesis in the Great War -- Progressive prophecy -- From prophecy to plan -- Breaching fortress Europe, 1942-43 -- Bludgeoning with bombs : Germany, 1944-45 -- Fire from the sky : Japan, 1944-45 -- Progressive legacies.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement-to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark ; Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself.