Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hecht, Gabrielle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
Series:Inside technology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht
  • Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel
  • The uses of portablility : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decoloniztion / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon
  • On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : captialism, 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' progess 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.