Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
$92.95
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2014
Summary
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also resea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262526531 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262526530 |
| Author: | Naomi Oreskes, John Krige, Angela N.H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell, Asif Siddiqi, Erik Conway, Benjamin Wilson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 752g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
About The Author
Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe and the coeditor of Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, both published by the MIT Press.Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe and the coeditor of Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, both published by the MIT Press.David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart- The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science- Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).Sonja D. Schmid is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech.John Krige is Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe and the coeditor of Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, both published by the MIT Press.
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