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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.