| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Inside technology
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Inside technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 technopolitical 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Cold War.
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Decolonization.
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Decolonization. |
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Geopolitics.
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Geopolitics. |
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Technology -- Political aspects.
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Technology -- Political aspects. |
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Technology and state.
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Technology and state. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hecht, Gabrielle.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Entangled geographies. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262515788 (DLC) 2010030321 (OCoLC)652445858 |
| ISBN |
9780262295710 (electronic book) |
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0262295717 (electronic book) |
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1283148129 |
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9781283148122 |
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9780262515788 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0262515784 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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