Book ID: CBB001181568

Entangled geographies: Empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War (2011)

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Hecht, Gabrielle (Editor)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: viii + 337 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

Description Contents: Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands: The United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portablility: Circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decoloniztion / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia: Captialism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths: The Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization?: Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progess in five: Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology: Technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a “Zimbabwean Nation,” 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War: Global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield. (From WorldCat)


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Authors & Contributors
Germuska, Pál
Imogen Sophie Kristin Wade
Susan Colbourn
Zofka, Jan
Trecker, Max
Nikolas Dörr
Journals
Cold War History
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Physics in Perspective
Journal of Contemporary History
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Air Power History
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Shandong jiaoyu
Naval Institute Press
MIT Press
Lexington Books
Concepts
Cold War
Technology and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
International relations
Technology
Technology transfer
People
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Teller, Edward
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Fuchs, Klaus
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Hungary
China
Saudi Arabia
Europe
Institutions
Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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