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The contours of America's cold war /
In The Contours of America's Cold War, Matthew Farish explores new ways of conceptualizing space as part of post-World War II American militarism. He demonstrates how the social sciences were militarized in the early Cold War period, producing spatial knowledge that was of immediate use to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : a history of cold war spaces
- Global views : geopolitics, science, and culture
- Regional intelligence : the militarization of geographical knowledge
- Illuminating the terrain : social science finds its targets
- The cybernetic continent : North America as defense laboratory
- Anxious urbanism : strategies for the atomic city
- Conclusion : into space.