Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / / edited by Gabrielle Hecht
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| Titolo: |
Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / / edited by Gabrielle Hecht
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325/.309045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cold War |
| Decolonization | |
| Geopolitics | |
| Technology - Political aspects | |
| Technology and state | |
| Altri autori: |
HechtGabrielle
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Entangled geographies |
| ISBN: | 1-283-14812-9 |
| 9786613148124 | |
| 0-262-29571-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820401403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Inside technology.