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"The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herzberg, Julia (Editor ), Kehrt, Christian, 1971- (Editor ), Torma, Franziska (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Colección:Environment in History: International Perspectives Ser.
Temas:
1900-1999
Cold War > Environmental aspects.
Guerre froide > Aspect de l'environnement.
Strategic aspects of individual places.
Polar regions > Strategic aspects.
Polar regions > History > 20th century.
Régions polaires > Aspect stratégique.
Régions polaires > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Polar regions.
Cold War, Environmental Science, Geo-Politics.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exploring ice and snow in the Cold War / Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, Franziska Torma
  • Cryo-history: ice, snow, and the great acceleration / Sverker Sörlin
  • Snow and avalanche research as patriotic duty: the institutionalization of a scientific discipline in Switzerland / Dania Achermann
  • "An orgy of hypothesizing": the construction of glaciological knowledge in Cold War America / Janet Martin-Nielsen
  • "Camp Century" and "Project Iceworm": Greenland as a stage for US military service rivalries / Ingo Heidbrink
  • Inuit responses to Arctic militarization: examples from Greenland / Sophie Elixhauser
  • Creating open territorial rights in cold and icy places: Cold War rivalries and the Antarctic and outer space treaties / Roger D. Launius
  • An environment too extreme: the case of Bouvetøya / Peder Roberts, Lize-Marie van der Watt
  • Managing the "white death" in Cold War Soviet Union: snow avalanches, ice science, and winter sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980s / Marc Elie
  • Laboratory metaphors in Antarctic history: from nature to space / Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl
  • Cold War creatures: Soviet science and the problem of the abominable snowman / Carolin F. Roeder, Gregory Afinogenov
  • Negotiating "coldness": the natural environment, the bonus of the far north, and community cohesion in Brezhnev era Severodvinsk / Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller
  • An exploration of the self: Reinhold Messner's transantarctic expedition of 1989 / Pascal Schillings.

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