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Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War /
This work 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Inside technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht
- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel
- The uses of portability : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decolonization / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon
- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : capitalism, 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 technopolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland
- Fifty years' progress 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.