Cold Science
Environmental Knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2019
320 pages
978-1-351-69874-0 (ISBN)
Description
Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history. The Arctic-recognized as a frontier of confrontation between the superpowers, and consequently central to the Cold War-has also attracted much attention. This edited collection speaks to this dual interest by providing innovative and authoritative analyses of the history of Arctic science during the Cold War.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white
File size
2,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-69874-0 (9781351698740)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Stephen Bocking | Daniel Heidt
Cold Science
Environmental Knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War
Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€67.60
Shipment within 15-20 days
Stephen Bocking | Daniel Heidt
Cold Science
Environmental Knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War
Book
03/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€208.20
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Stephen Bocking is a Professor with the Trent School of the Environment at Trent University, Canada.
Daniel Heidt is the Research and Administration Manager at the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, St. Jerome's University, Canada.
Daniel Heidt is the Research and Administration Manager at the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, St. Jerome's University, Canada.
Content
List of Contributors
Part 1. Introductory perspectives
1. Introduction: Cold War science in the North American Arctic
Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt
Part 2. Strategic science
2. Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold War
Mark Nuttall
3. Leadership, cultures, the Cold War and the establishment of Arctic scientific stations: situating the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS)
P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Daniel Heidt
4. Frontier footage: science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948-1954
Matthew S. Wiseman
5. Portraying America's last frontier: Alaska in the media during the Second World War and the Cold War
Victoria Herrmann
6. Making 'Man in the Arctic': academic and military entanglements, 1944-49
Matthew Farish
Part 3. Cold War economies
7. Arctic pipelines and permafrost science: North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968-1982
Robert Page
8. Cold oil: linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian Arctic
Stephen Bocking
9. Icebergs in Iowa: Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledge
Rafico Ruiz
10. Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements: negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977-1978
Andrew Stuhl
Part 4. Science crossing borders
11. Knowledge base: polar explorers and the integration of science, security, and US foreign policy in Greenland, from the Great War to the Cold War
Dawn Alexandrea Berry
12. Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold War
Lize-Marie van der Watt, Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus
13. Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accident
Henrik Knudsen
14. Applied science and practical cooperation: Operation Morning Light and the recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978
P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean
15. Melting the ice curtain: indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982-1988
Tess Lanzarotta
Part 5. Epilogue: global Cold War-the Antarctic and the Arctic
16. Antarctic science and the Cold War
Adrian Howkins
Index
Part 1. Introductory perspectives
1. Introduction: Cold War science in the North American Arctic
Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt
Part 2. Strategic science
2. Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold War
Mark Nuttall
3. Leadership, cultures, the Cold War and the establishment of Arctic scientific stations: situating the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS)
P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Daniel Heidt
4. Frontier footage: science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948-1954
Matthew S. Wiseman
5. Portraying America's last frontier: Alaska in the media during the Second World War and the Cold War
Victoria Herrmann
6. Making 'Man in the Arctic': academic and military entanglements, 1944-49
Matthew Farish
Part 3. Cold War economies
7. Arctic pipelines and permafrost science: North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968-1982
Robert Page
8. Cold oil: linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian Arctic
Stephen Bocking
9. Icebergs in Iowa: Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledge
Rafico Ruiz
10. Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements: negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977-1978
Andrew Stuhl
Part 4. Science crossing borders
11. Knowledge base: polar explorers and the integration of science, security, and US foreign policy in Greenland, from the Great War to the Cold War
Dawn Alexandrea Berry
12. Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold War
Lize-Marie van der Watt, Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus
13. Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accident
Henrik Knudsen
14. Applied science and practical cooperation: Operation Morning Light and the recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978
P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean
15. Melting the ice curtain: indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982-1988
Tess Lanzarotta
Part 5. Epilogue: global Cold War-the Antarctic and the Arctic
16. Antarctic science and the Cold War
Adrian Howkins
Index
