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082 0 0 _a325.309045
245 0 0 _aEntangled geographies :
_bempire and technopolitics in the global Cold War /
_cedited by Gabrielle Hecht.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bMIT Press,
_cc2011.
300 _aviii, 337 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c23 cm.
490 1 _aInside technology
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aCold War.
650 0 _aDecolonization.
650 0 _aGeopolitics.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aTechnology and state.
650 4 _aGuerra fría.
650 4 _aGeopolítica.
650 4 _aTecnología
_xAspectos políticos.
650 4 _aFilosofía de la tecnología.
700 1 _aHecht, Gabrielle.
830 0 _aInside technology.
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