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Farish, Matthew

 
9780816648436: The Contours of America's Cold War
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ISBN 10: 0816648433 ISBN 13: 9780816648436
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Sinopsis

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 state as it sought to expand its reach across the globe.
Geographic knowledge generated for the Cold War was a form of power, Farish argues, and it was given an urgency in the panels, advisory boards, and study groups established to address the challenges of an atomic world. He investigates how the scales of the city, the continent, the region, the globe, and, by extension, outer space, were brought together as strategic spaces, categories that provided a cartographic orientation for the Cold War and influenced military deployments, diplomacy, espionage, and finance.
Farish analyzes the surprising range of knowledge production involved in the project of claiming and classifying American space. Backed by military and intelligence funding, physicists and policy makers, soldiers and social scientists came together to study and shape the United States and its place in a divided world.

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Matthew Farish is assistant professor of geography at the University of Toronto.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816648433
ISBN 13 
9780816648436
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Número de páginas
382
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