03168nam 2200673Ia 450 991046024610332120200520144314.00-8166-7508-2(CKB)2670000000069684(EBL)635543(OCoLC)698116870(SSID)ssj0000468004(PQKBManifestationID)11324853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468004(PQKBWorkID)10498067(PQKB)10423976(MiAaPQ)EBC635543(MdBmJHUP)muse29839(Au-PeEL)EBL635543(CaPaEBR)ebr10440595(CaONFJC)MIL525752(EXLCZ)99267000000006968420100913d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe contours of America's Cold War[electronic resource] /Matthew FarishMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (382 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4843-3 0-8166-4842-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. He investigates how the scalAtomic bombSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCold WarSocial aspectsUnited StatesNuclear warfareSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWar and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesCivilization1945-Electronic books.Atomic bombSocial aspectsHistoryCold WarSocial aspectsNuclear warfareSocial aspectsHistoryPopular cultureHistoryWar and societyHistory327.73009045973.918Farish Matthew927975MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460246103321The contours of America's Cold War2084771UNINA