LEADER 03998nam 2200529 450 001 9910816962703321 005 20230124200324.0 010 $a1-78533-987-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785339875 035 $a(CKB)4100000007006678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5525587 035 $a(DE-B1597)637580 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785339875 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007006678 100 $a20181023d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIce and snow in the Cold War $ehistories of extreme climatic environments /$fedited by Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford :$cBerghahn Books,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (330 pages) 225 1 $aThe environment in history: international perspectives ;$vVolume 14 311 $a1-78533-986-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aExploring ice and snow in the Cold War / Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, Franziska Torma -- Cryo-history: ice, snow, and the great acceleration / Sverker So?rlin -- Snow and avalanche research as patriotic duty: the institutionalization of a scientific discipline in Switzerland / Dania Achermann -- "An orgy of hypothesizing": the construction of glaciological knowledge in Cold War America / Janet Martin-Nielsen -- "Camp Century" and "Project Iceworm": Greenland as a stage for US military service rivalries / Ingo Heidbrink -- Inuit responses to Arctic militarization: examples from Greenland / Sophie Elixhauser -- Creating open territorial rights in cold and icy places: Cold War rivalries and the Antarctic and outer space treaties / Roger D. Launius -- An environment too extreme: the case of Bouvetøya / Peder Roberts, Lize-Marie van der Watt -- Managing the "white death" in Cold War Soviet Union: snow avalanches, ice science, and winter sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980s / Marc Elie -- Laboratory metaphors in Antarctic history: from nature to space / Sebastian Vincent Grevsmu?hl -- Cold War creatures: Soviet science and the problem of the abominable snowman / Carolin F. Roeder, Gregory Afinogenov -- Negotiating "coldness": the natural environment, the bonus of the far north, and community cohesion in Brezhnev era Severodvinsk / Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller -- An exploration of the self: Reinhold Messner's transantarctic expedition of 1989 / Pascal Schillings. 330 $a"The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of 'East' and 'West'--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aEnvironment in history: international perspectives ;$vVolume 14. 606 $aCold War$xEnvironmental aspects 607 $aPolar regions 607 $aPolar regions$xStrategic aspects 607 $aPolar regions$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aCold War, Environmental Science, Geo-Politics. 615 0$aCold War$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a919.8 686 $aMK 2300$qAT-OBV$2rvk 702 $aHerzberg$b Julia 702 $aKehrt$b Christian$f1971- 702 $aTorma$b Franziska 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816962703321 996 $aIce and snow in the Cold War$93937296 997 $aUNINA