Ice and snow in the cold war : histories of extreme climatic environments /

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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. Howev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herzberg, Julia (Editor ), Kehrt, Christian (Editor ), Torma, Franziska (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2019.
Colección:Environment in history ; v. 14.
Temas:
Winter warfare.
War > Environmental aspects.
War > Climatic factors.
Guerre en hiver.
Guerre > Aspect de l'environnement.
Guerre > Facteurs climatiques.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
War > Environmental aspects
Winter warfare
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations INTRODUCTIONS Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War; Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma Cryo-history: Ice, Snow,
  • And the Great Acceleration; Sverker Sörlin PART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGE Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in Switzerland; Dania Achermann Chapter 2. "An Orgy of Hypothesizing": The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America; Janet Martin-Nielsen Chapter 3. "Camp Century" and "Project Iceworm": Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries; Ingo Heidbrink Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland; Sophie Elixhauser PART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties<br
  • />Roger D. Launius Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of Bouvetøya; Peder Roberts and Lize-Marié van der Watt Chapter 7. Managing the "White Death" in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980s 189; Marc Elie PART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOW Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space; Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman; Carolin F.
  • Roeder and Gregory Afinogenov Chapter 10. Negotiating "Coldness": The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk 253; Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner's Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989; Pascal Schillings Conclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War; Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma Index

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