Hecht, Gabrielle (Editor)
The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Entangled Geographies explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Frontières. The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer insights from the anthropology and history of development, from diplomatic history, and from science and technology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, providing new perspectives on the global Cold War.
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Review Mats Fridlund (2014) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 173-174).
Review Farish, Matthew (2012) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 805-806).
Review Sarkar, Jayita (2013) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 354-355).
Essay Review Siddiqi, Asif (2013) Where and When was the Cold War?. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 513-516).
Chapter Oldenziel, Ruth (2011) Islands: The United States as a Networked Empire. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 13).
Chapter Mehos, Donna; Moon, Suzanne (2011) The Uses of Portability: Circulating Experts in the Technopolitics of Cold War and Decolonization. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 43).
Chapter Hecht, Gabrielle (2011) On the Fallacies of Cold War Nostalgia: Capitalism, Colonialism, and South African Nuclear Geographies. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 75).
Chapter Abraham, Itty (2011) Rare Earths: The Cold War in the Annals of Travancore. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 101).
Chapter Schmid, Sonja D. (2011) Nuclear Colonization? Soviet Technopolitics in the Second World. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 125).
Chapter Lampland, Martha (2011) The Technopolitical Lineage of State Planning in Hungary, 1930--1956. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 155).
Chapter Denicke, Lars (2011) Fifty Years' Progress in Five: Brasilia---Modernization, Globalism, and the Geopolitics of Flight. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 185).
Chapter Jones, Toby C. (2011) Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 209).
Chapter Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (2011) A Plundering Tiger with Its Deadly Cubs? The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a “Zimbabwean Nation,” 1945--2009. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 231).
Chapter Redfield, Peter (2011) Cleaning Up the Cold War: Global Humanitarianism and the Infrastructure of Crisis Response. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 267).
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Hecht, Gabrielle;
(2011)
Entangled geographies: Empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War
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Usdin, Steven T.;
(2009)
The Rosenberg Ring Revealed: Industrial-Scale Conventional and Nuclear Espionage
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Frazier, Javan David;
(2008)
Almost Persuaded: The Johnson Administration's Extension of Nuclear Cooperation with South Africa, 1965--1967
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Henry Richard Maar III;
(2022)
Freeze!: The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War
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Craig, Campbell;
Radchenko, Sergey;
(2008)
The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War
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Henrich-Franke, Christian;
(2014)
Cross-Curtain Radio Cooperation and New International Alignments during the Cold War
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Gorelik, Gennady;
(2009)
The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives
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Hoffman, David E.;
(2009)
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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Cain, Frank;
(2005)
Computers and the Cold War: United States Restrictions on the Export of Computers to the Soviet Union and Communist China
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Susan Colbourn;
(2022)
Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
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Hardesty, Von;
Eisman, Gene;
Khrushchev, Sergei;
(2007)
Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
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Hornblum, Allen M.;
(2010)
The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb
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Hecht, Gabrielle;
Edwards, Paul N.;
(2005)
Les techniques de la guerre froide en perspective mondiale: Le nucléaire et l'informatique comme systèmes technopolitiques
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Schmid, Sonja D.;
(2015)
Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
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Jameson, Robert P.;
(2013)
Armageddon's Shortening Fuse: How Advances in Nuclear Weapons Technology Pushed Strategists to Mutually Assured Destruction, 1945--1962
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Nicholas Michael Sambaluk;
(2015)
The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
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Nikolas Dörr;
(2019)
Die „saubere“ Atombombe. Die Bedeutung der Neutronenwaffe als Projektionsfl äche im Kalten Krieg (The “Clean” Atomic Bomb. The Significance of Neutron Weaponry as a Projection Screen during the Cold War)
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Zhang, Baichun;
Zhang, Jiuchun;
Yao, Fang;
(2005)
Technology Transfer from the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China, 1949--1966
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Eugene Cittadino;
(2018)
Barry Commoner and Paul Sears on Project Chariot: Epiphany, Ecology, and the Atomic Energy Commission
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Wyk, Martha van;
(2010)
Sunset over Atomic Apartheid: United States--South African Nuclear Relations, 1981--93
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