The contours of America's cold war
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The contours of America's cold war
University of Minnesota Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: A History of Cold War Spaces
1. Global Views: Geopolitics, Science, and Culture
2. Regional Intelligence: The Militarization of Geographical Knowledge
3. Illuminating the Terrain: Social Science Finds Its Targets
4. The Cybernetic Continent: North America as Defense Laboratory
5. Anxious Urbanism: Strategies for the Atomic City
Conclusion: Into Space
Acknowledgments
Notes
Publication History
Index
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