Exploring Greenland Cold War Science and Technology on Ice /

Exploring Greenland Cold War Science and Technology on Ice /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Doel, Ronald E. (Editor), Harper, Kristine C. (Editor), Heymann, Matthias (Editor)
Summary:XIII, 311 p. 15 illus., 3 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,
Subjects:
History, Modern.
United States > History.
Science > History.
Geology.
Modern History.
US History.
History of Science.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59688-8
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • .Introduction Exploring Greenland’s Secrets: Science, Technology, Diplomacy, and Cold War Planning in Global Contexts Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann
  • .Part One Arctic Challenges in the Cold War
  • .Chapter 1 Defending the North American Continent: Why the Physical Environmental Sciences Mattered in Cold War Greenland Ronald E. Doel
  • .Chapter 2 Small state preoccupations: science and technology in the pursuit of modernization, security, and sovereignty in Greenland Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen
  • .Part Two Controlling Hostile Environments: Geophysical Research in Greenland
  • .Chapter 3 Searching for Control: Weather Stations and Data in the Early Cold War Matthias Heymann
  • .Chapter 4 Security and the nation: Glaciology in Early Cold War Greenland Janet Martin-Nielsen
  • .Chapter 5 Failed Geologies: Danish and American Agendas for the Geological Investigation of Greenland, 1946-1960 Christopher JacobRies
  • .Chapter 6 Battling the Aurora Borealis: The Transnational Coproduction of Ionospheric Research in Early Cold War Greenland Henrik Knudsen
  • .Chapter 7 Danish Seismic Research in Relation to American Nuclear Detection Efforts Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen
  • .Part Three< Entanglement and Transformation: Diplomacy and Politics of Science in Greenland
  • .Chapter 8 Camp Century – Cold War City under the Ice Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen
  • .Chapter 9 Cold War Greenland as a Space for International Scientific Collaboration Henrik Knudsen
  • .Chapter 10 Cold Atoms: The Hunt for Uranium in Greenland in the Late Cold War and Beyond (1970-1989)Henry Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen.-.

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