Entangled Geographies : Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War.
Title:
Entangled Geographies : Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War.
Author:
Hecht, Gabrielle.
ISBN:
9780262295710
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (348 pages)
Series:
Inside Technology
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Islands -- 3 The Uses of Portability -- 4 On the Fallacies of Cold War Nostalgia -- 5 Rare Earths -- 6 Nuclear Colonization? -- 7 The Technopolitical Lineage of State Planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 -- 8 Fifty Years' Progress in Five -- 9 Crude Ecology -- 10 A Plundering Tiger with Its Deadly Cubs? -- 11 Cleaning Up the Cold War -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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