The contours of America's Cold War / / Matthew Farish

• Autore: Farish Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73009045; 973.918
• Soggetto topico: Atomic bomb - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Cold War - Social aspects - United States; Nuclear warfare - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; War and society - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1945-
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 scal
• Titolo autorizzato: The contours of America's Cold War
• ISBN: 0-8166-7508-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817039503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II