Ice and snow in the cold war : histories of extreme climatic environments /: histories of extreme climatic environments. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma.
• Editors: Herzberg, Julia; Kehrt, Christian; Torma, Franziska
• Contents: List of Illustrations INTRODUCTIONS Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War; Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration; Sverker Sörlin PART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGE Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in Switzerland; Dania Achermann Chapter 2. “An Orgy of Hypothesizing”: The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America; Janet Martin-Nielsen Chapter 3. “Camp Century” and “Project Iceworm”: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries; Ingo Heidbrink Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland; Sophie Elixhauser PART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties<br />Roger D. Launius Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of Bouvetøya; Peder Roberts and Lize-Marié van der Watt Chapter 7. Managing the “White Death” in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s–1980s 189; Marc Elie PART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOW Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space; Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman; Carolin F. Roeder and Gregory Afinogenov Chapter 10. Negotiating “Coldness”: The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk 253; Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989; Pascal Schillings Conclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War; Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 577.274; Winter warfare; War -- Environmental aspects; War -- Climatic factors; NATURE / Ecology; NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785339875; 1785339877
• Related ISBNs: 1785339869; 9781785339868
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 12, 2018).
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