LEADER 03108nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910817039503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-7508-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000069684 035 $a(EBL)635543 035 $a(OCoLC)698116870 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324853 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498067 035 $a(PQKB)10423976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC635543 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29839 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL635543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10440595 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525752 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000069684 100 $a20100913d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe contours of America's Cold War /$fMatthew Farish 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4843-3 311 $a0-8166-4842-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn 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 scal 606 $aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aNuclear warfare$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWar and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1945- 615 0$aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 615 0$aNuclear warfare$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory 676 $a327.73009045 676 $a973.918 700 $aFarish$b Matthew$01608052 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817039503321 996 $aThe contours of America's Cold War$93934601 997 $aUNINA