Book ID: CBB001422488

Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960--1990 (2014)

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Höhler, Sabine (Author)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: viii + 234 pp.; ill.; index; bibl.
Language: English

'Spaceship Earth' was a key metaphor in the late twentieth-century debate over the world's resources and the future of humankind. This idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler's study innovatively brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the way this latter-day ark was invoked by politicians, environmentalists, cultural historians, writers of science fiction and many others across three decades.

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Authors & Contributors
Sellers, Christopher C.
Anker, Peder Johan
Bailes, Kendall E.
Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
Eliasson, Per
Hagen, Joel B.
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Environment and History
Environmental History
Journal of Visual Art Practice
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Harvard University
Firenze University Press
Franco Angeli
Lexington Books
Routledge
Rutgers University Press
Concepts
Environmentalism
Ecology
Environmental history
Cold War
Nature
Environment
People
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Starling, Simon
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Louisiana (U.S.)
New York (U.S.)
Australia
Italy
Institutions
Australian Academy of Science
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