Exploring Greenland : Cold War science and technology on ice /: Cold War science and technology on ice. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors.
• Editors: Doel, Ronald Edmund; Harper, Kristine; Heymann, Matthias
• Contents: Contributors -- Map of Greenland -- Polar projection map -- Greenland and the world: timeline -- List of figures. Introduction: exploring Greenland's secrets: science, technology, diplomacy, and Cold War planning in global contexts / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, and Matthias Heymann. Part 1 Arctic challenges in the Cold War : Defending the North American continent: why they physical environmental sciences mattered in Cold War Greenland / Ronald E. Doel -- Small state preoccupations: science and technology in the pursuit of modernization, security, and sovereignty in Greenland / Kristian H. Nielsen. Part 2 Controlling hostile environments: geophysical research in Greenland : In search of control: Arctic weather stations in the early Cold War / Matthias Heymann -- Security and the nation: glaciology in early Cold War Greenland / Janet Martin-Nielsen -- Uncommon grounds: Daniel and American perspectives on Greenland's geology (1946-1960) / Christopher Jacob Ries -- Battling the Aurora Borealis: the transnational coproduction of ionospheric research in early Cold War Greenland / Henrik Knudsen -- Danish seismic research in relation to American nuclear detection efforts / Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen. Part 3 Entanglement and transformation: diplomacy and politics of science in Greenland : Camp century: Cold War city under the ice / Henry Nielsen and Kristian H. Nielsen -- Cold War Greenland as a space for international scientific collaboration / Henrik Knudsen -- Cold atoms: the hunt for uranium in Greenland in the late Cold War and beyond / Henry Nielsen and Henrik Knudsen. Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 998.2; History; Geophysics; Scientists -- Greenland; Scientists -- Denmark; Cold War -- Diplomatic history; HISTORY -- Polar Regions; Diplomacy; Diplomatic relations; Ecology; Geophysics; Politics and government; Scientists; History -- United States -- General; Science -- History; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; History of the Americas; History of science; Historical geology; History, Modern; Geology; History -- Modern -- General; History: earliest times to present day; Greenland -- History; United States -- Foreign relations -- Denmark; Denmark -- Foreign relations -- United States; Greenland -- Environmental conditions; Denmark -- Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government; Denmark; Greenland; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137596888; 1137596880; 1137596872; 9781137596871
• Related ISBNs: 9781137596871; 1137596872
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-287) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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