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Confronting the Climate
British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine
AvV. Jankovic
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.
Globalizing Polar Science
Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years
AvR. Launius,J. Flemingm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Globalizing Polar Science
Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years
AvR. Launius,J. Flemingm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century
AvA. Gillette
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
AvJ. Logsdon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
665 kr
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While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years.
Vision of Modern Science
John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture
AvU. DeYoung
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
563 kr
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An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
Searching for Sasquatch
Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology
AvB. Regal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 341 kr
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The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them—and their place in the history of science.
Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry
The Lab as Contact Zone
AvYoshiyuki Kikuchi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
563 kr
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Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific pedagogical and research system that lasted well into the post-World World II period of massive technological development, when it became one of the biggest providers of chemists and chemical engineers in the world next to Europe and the United States. In telling this story, Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry explores various sites of science education such as teaching laboratories and classrooms - where British and American teachers mingled with Japanese students - to shed new light on the lab as a site of global human encounter and intricate social relations that shaped scientific practice.
Nuclear Age in Popular Media
A Transnational History, 1945–1965
AvKenneth A. Loparo,Dick Van Lentem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 230 kr
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The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
AvC. Bright
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and "Falcon" missiles were meant to counter a raid by attacking Soviet bombers. U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes. Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era traces this armament from conception through deployment. Bright recounts official actions, doctrinal decisions, and public policies. It also discusses the widespread acceptance of these weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and television episodes, and disseminated throughout society as a whole.
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
AvC. Bright
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
563 kr
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Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and "Falcon" missiles were meant to counter a raid by attacking Soviet bombers. U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes. Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era traces this armament from conception through deployment. Bright recounts official actions, doctrinal decisions, and public policies. It also discusses the widespread acceptance of these weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and television episodes, and disseminated throughout society as a whole.
Inventing the American Astronaut
AvMatthew H. Hersch
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
618 kr
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Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many would have been at home in corporate America - and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be headed there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted skyward, returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press. From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.
Inventing the American Astronaut
AvMatthew H. Hersch
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
618 kr
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Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many would have been at home in corporate America - and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be headed there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted skyward, returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press. From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.
Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
AvA. Storm
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
429 kr
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Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between industrial workers and those in power. The metaphor of the scar pinpoints the inherent ambiguity of memory work by signifying both positive and negative experiences, as well as the contemporary challenges of living with these physical and mental marks. In this book, Anna Storm explores post-industrial landscape scars caused by nuclear power production, mining, and iron and steel industry in Malmberget, Kiruna, Barsebäck and Avesta in Sweden; Ignalina and Visaginas/Snie?kus in Lithuania/former Soviet Union; and Duisburg in the Ruhr district of Germany. The scars are shaped by time and geographical scale; they carry the vestiges of life and work, of community spirit and hope, of betrayed dreams and repressive hierarchical structures. What is critical, Storm concludes, is the search for a legitimate politics of memory. The meanings of the scars must be acknowledged. Past and present experiences must be shared in order shape new understandings of old places.
Exploring the Solar System
The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
AvR. Launius
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 341 kr
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Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system. The remarkable fruits of this research revolutionized the public's view of their celestial neighbors, capturing the imaginations of people from all backgrounds like nothing else save the Apollo lunar missions. From the first space probes to the most recent planetary rovers, they have continually delivered impressive discoveries and reshaped our understanding of the cosmos. Offering fascinating investigations into this crucial chapter in space history, this collection of specially commissioned essays from leading historians opens new vistas in our understanding of the development of planetary science.
Sociable Sciences
Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile
AvP. Schell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
563 kr
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This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world.
First Atomic Age
Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895–1945
AvMatthew Lavine
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 341 kr
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At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century.
Climate, Science, and Colonization
Histories from Australia and New Zealand
AvEmily O'Gorman,Matthew Henrym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
563 kr
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Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies.
Empire and Science in the Making
Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830
AvP. Boomgaard
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 119 kr
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Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.
NASA in the World
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
AvJohn Krige,Ashok Maharajm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 119 kr
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Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.
NASA in the World
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
AvJohn Krige,Ashok Maharajm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 230 kr
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Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
AvJ. Logsdon
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
665 kr
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While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years.
Searching for Sasquatch
Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology
AvB. Regal
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 452 kr
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The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monster hunting in the late 20th century, but the more important relationship between the professional scientists and amateur naturalists who hunt them—and their place in the history of science.
Limiting Outer Space
Astroculture After Apollo
AvAlexander C.T. Geppert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 119 kr
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Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits. Bringing together the history of European astroculture and American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives. Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade, the Post-Apollo period.
Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination
Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland
AvJ. Martin-Nielsen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
563 kr
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Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its history from European contact through the Cold War, this study shows how Eismitte was the setting for scientific knowledge production as well as diplomatic maneuvering.
After Apollo?
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
AvJohn M. Logsdon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
785 kr
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Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years.
Surveillance Imperative
Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond
AvS. Turchetti,P. Robertsm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
563 kr
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Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.
Voices of the Soviet Space Program
Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space
AvS. Gerovitch
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 452 kr
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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives, experiences, and institutional cultures that defined the Soviet space program.
Frontiers for the American Century
Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism
AvJames Spiller
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
563 kr
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This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, especially the nationalist motif of the frontier, were used to garner public support for these strategic initiatives and, more generally, United States internationalism during this period.
Antarctica and the Humanities
AvRoberts Peder,Lize-Marié van der Wattm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 007 kr
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The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology – serie

Confronting the Climate

Globalizing Polar Science

Globalizing Polar Science

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

Vision of Modern Science

Searching for Sasquatch

Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry

Nuclear Age in Popular Media

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era

Inventing the American Astronaut

Inventing the American Astronaut

Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

Exploring the Solar System

Sociable Sciences

First Atomic Age

Climate, Science, and Colonization

Empire and Science in the Making

NASA in the World

NASA in the World

John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

Searching for Sasquatch

Limiting Outer Space

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination

After Apollo?

Surveillance Imperative

Voices of the Soviet Space Program

Frontiers for the American Century

Antarctica and the Humanities