Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
- Summary
-
This work explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.
This work explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Gabrielle Hecht
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011
- Series
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0262515784, 9781283148122, 9780262295710, 9780262515788, 0262295717, 1283148129, 9786613148124
- OCLC
- ocn738433349, ocn652445858
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portability : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decolonization / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : capitalism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progress in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a 'Zimbabwean Nation," 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield