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The contours of America's Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Farish



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Autore: Farish Matthew Visualizza persona
Titolo: The contours of America's Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Farish Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-7508-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785687403321
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