The highway of the atom / / Peter C. van Wyck

• Autore: Van Wyck Peter C
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 622/.34932097193
• Soggetto topico: Uranium mines and mining - Northwest Territories - Port Radium - History; Atomic bomb - History; Chipewyan Indians - Northwest Territories - Great Bear Lake - Social conditions; Nuclear industry - Canada - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Images -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- Field Note: Great Bear Lake – 30 July 2003 -- Archive -- Tracking Stories -- History -- Writing -- Map -- Theory -- Field Note: Apology – November 2002 -- The Route -- A Gentle Compulsiveness -- Material -- Village of Widows -- 2 -- Punctum -- Rice Christians – Who knew? -- Cargo Cult -- Magic -- Field Note: Two Contrasting Figures – May 2003 -- Field Note: Tulita – 6 August 2003 -- The Idea of North -- Naming -- Field Note: Yellowknife, Explorer Hotel – August 2003 -- Field Note: Northern Metaphor – Norway Point, -- February 2005 -- Field Note: Landscape – Yellowknife, August 2007 -- Field Note: Tigullapaa – Nuuk, Greenland, 25 August -- 2008 -- Field Note: Norway Point – April 2009 -- Abduction -- Birth Order -- Vision -- Meanwhile -- Radium -- Sum and Remainder -- 3 -- Finding Aids -- Field Note: Cobalt-Bloom and Copper-Green – Echo Bay, 2003 -- Pitchblende -- Congo -- White Myth -- Oh Canada – More Silence -- Field Note: Cameron Bay – August 2003 -- Field Note: Bewilderment – Déline, 2003 -- Field Note: Grey Goose Inn, Déline – 25 July 2003 -- Field Note: Arctic Circle (66°32´) - 1 August 2005 -- Chorography -- Field Note: Port Radium – 30 July 2003 -- Field Note: Déline – August 2003 -- 4 -- The Stones Are Speaking Now -- Phantoms -- Alibi -- Lieux de Mémoire: A Mnemonics of Catastrophe -- Abduction and the Accident -- Shipwreck with Raven -- Field Note: New Mexico – February 2004 -- From Figure to Metaphor -- Spectator -- Ecology -- Story -- Erasure, Redux -- Equivalence -- Field Note: Black River – 3 August 2005 -- Field Note: Mackenzie River – 3 August 2005 -- Field Notes in the Margins -- Field Note: Tulita (Fort Norman) – 6 August 2005 -- Field Note: Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River) – 6 August 2005 -- Problems -- Field Note: (The Gift) Déline – February 2003 -- Notes to part 1 -- Notes to part 2 -- Notes to part 3 -- Notes to part 4 -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "A subarctic mine on the far eastern shores of Great Bear Lake provided Canadian uranium for the bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945. However, a complete history of Canada's involvement in the Manhattan project and the development of the atomic bomb has been thwarted by restrictions on classified documents. [This book] overcomes these restrictions in an innovative and unconventional history that assembles a narrative from fragments -- interviews, indigenous stories, archives, and physical remains -- while questioning whether it is possible to grasp the past by sifting through what remains. Uncovering the story of the radioactive ore's route from mine to weapon of mass destruction, Peter van Wyck considers the legacy of this history for the Dene community and inquires into trauma, landscape, disaster, and memory. ... weaves together crucial missing pieces about the beginning of the Atomic Age in startling and unexpected ways."--Book jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: The highway of the atom
• ISBN: 0-7735-8140-5; 1-283-53020-1; 9786613842657; 0-7735-8087-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807420503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II