Cosmic Fragments
Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age
Published on 20. May 2025
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-8229-4843-8 (ISBN)
Description
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series
Reviews / Votes
Cosmic Fragments enlarges the purview of the history of space exploration, foregrounding those narrative fragments normally consigned to the edges-environmental damage, Indigenous dispossession, infrastructural entanglements, failed pathways, and cultural registers of ambiguity and rupture. This anthology is a significant achievement and is poised to make a valuable contribution to space history. -- Matthew Hersch, Harvard University Cosmic Fragments makes a valuable contribution to space exploration history through its coverage of the negative and problematic aspects of space development. -- Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War Cosmic Fragments is an exciting collection of essays challenging the commonsense idea that space history is only the technological innovations and political interests of the Cold War superpowers. The book gives us a new history that disrupts our favorite 'right stuff' myths, unveiling overlooked places, people, and perspectives. It is essential reading for exploring the space-age ruins of India, Japan, Australia, South America, Canada, and China, as well as those of Russia and the United States. -- DeWitt Douglas Kilgore, Indiana UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-4843-8 (9780822948438)
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Person
Asif A. Siddiqi is professor of history at Fordham University in New York. He writes and teaches on the history of science and technology as well as on modern Russian history. His books include The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 and the forthcoming Departure Gates: Global Histories of Space on Earth. Siddiqi is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015) and the coeditor of the Studies in the History of Science and Technology series at Johns Hopkins University Press.