How outer space made America : geography, organization and the cosmic sublime /

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In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. While largely engaging with the historical de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sage, Daniel, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
Temas:
Astronautics > United States > History.
Astronautics > Social aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American.
Astronautique > États-Unis > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
Exploration of outer space
Astronautics
Astronautics > Social aspects
Discoveries in geography > Social aspects
National characteristics, American
Outer space > Exploration > United States > History.
Outer space > Exploration > Social aspects > United States.
Espace extra-atmosphérique > Exploration > États-Unis > Histoire.
Espace extra-atmosphérique > Exploration > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Outer space
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introducing a Geography of Outer Space; 1 America as Transcendental ; 2 Framing a World Beyond; 3 Placing the Moon ; 4 Technocracy in the Space Age; 5 Whose Body for Whose Future?; 6 Was Revolution Ever in the Air? ; 7 Memorializing the Future; 8 Traumatizing Spaceflight; 9 Critical Cosmopolitics; References; Index.

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