Book ID: CBB000201573

Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America (2002)

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Tietge, David J. (Author)


Ohio University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xviii + 199 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description “Documents the manner in which those at the highest levels of our political and cultural institutions conflated the rhetoric of science and technology with the rhetorics of religion and patriotism to express their policies for governance at the onset of the Cold War and to explain them to the American public.” (from publisher's website)


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Authors & Contributors
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Lupo, Maurizio
Bini, Elisabetta
Rispoli, Giulia
Gerardo Ienna
Renaud Debailly
Journals
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Journal of Popular Culture
Social Studies of Science
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of Contemporary History
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Viella
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Chicago Press
Springer
Ohio University Press
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and society
Cold War
Science and technology, relationships
Popular culture
Science and culture
People
Carrel, Alexis
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Italy
France
Europe
Southern states (U.S.)
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