Call number:
9781351698757 (e-book)
Description / Table of Contents:
Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history. The Arctic--recognized as a frontier of confrontation between the superpowers, and consequently central to the Cold War--has also attracted much attention. This edited collection speaks to this dual interest by providing innovative and authoritative analyses of the history of Arctic science during the Cold War.
Type of Medium:
12
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (320 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781351698757 (e-book)
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine 38
URL:
Fulltext @ Ebook Central (AWI only)
Language:
English
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Table of Contents
Introductory perspectives
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cold War science in the North American Arctic / by Stephen Bocking, Daniel Heidt
Strategic science
Chapter 2: Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold War / by Mark Nuttall
Chapter 3: Leadership, cultures, the Cold War and the establishment of Arctic scientific stations: situating the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS) / by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Daniel Heidt
Chapter 4: Frontier footage: science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948–1954 / by Matthew S. Wiseman
Chapter 5: Portraying America's last frontier: Alaska in the media during the Second World War and the Cold War / by Victoria Herrmann
Chapter 6: Making “Man in the Arctic”: academic and military entanglements, 1944–49 / by Matthew Farish
Cold War economies
Chapter 7: Arctic pipelines and permafrost science: North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968–1982 / by Robert Page
Chapter 8: Cold oil: linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian Arctic / by Stephen Bocking
Chapter 9: Icebergs in Iowa: Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledge / by Rafico Ruiz
Chapter 10: Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements: negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977–1978 / by Andrew Stuhl
Science crossing borders
Chapter 11: Knowledge base: polar explorers and the integration of science, security, and US foreign policy in Greenland, from the Great War to the Cold War / by Dawn Alexandrea Berry
Chapter 12: Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold War / by Lize-Marié van der Watt, Peder Roberts, Julia Lajus
Chapter 13: Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accident / by Henrik Knudsen
Chapter 14: Applied science and practical cooperation: Operation Morning Light and the recovery of cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978 / by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ryan Dean
Chapter 15: Melting the ice curtain: indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982–1988 / by Tess Lanzarotta
Epilogue: global Cold War—the Antarctic and the Arctic
Chapter 16: Antarctic science and the Cold War / by Adrian Howkins
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