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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789412703321

Titolo

Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / / edited by Gabrielle Hecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

1-283-14812-9

9786613148124

0-262-29571-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Inside technology

Altri autori (Persone)

HechtGabrielle

Disciplina

325/.309045

Soggetti

Cold War

Decolonization

Geopolitics

Technology - Political aspects

Technology and state

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 / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portability : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decolonization / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : capitalism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progress in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a 'Zimbabwean Nation," 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield.



Sommario/riassunto

This work explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716168003321

Titolo

Distribution of the Supreme Court reports. April 5 (calendar day, April 13), 1926. -- Ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1926

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

Senate report / 69th Congress, 1st session. Senate ; ; no. 582

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8525]

Altri autori (Persone)

CumminsAlbert Baird <1850-1926> (Republican (IA))

Soggetti

Court records

Legislative amendments

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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