{"product_id":"the-contours-of-americas-cold-war-9780816648436","title":"The Contours of Americas Cold War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Contours of America's Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vital new contribution to American studies.  Matthew Farish shows how the geopolitics of the Cold War required a new cartography, producing a wide ranging transformation in how Americans understood urban, national, and planetary space. It breaks new ground in showing how the human sciences were militarized under the logics of global threat during the early Cold War.  Essential reading for anyone investigating the deep roots of American militarism or the spatial contours of our modern world.\" —Joseph Masco, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Contours of America’s Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding book directed at understanding the varied geographical underpinnings of the conduct of the Cold War in the U.S. context from 1945 to 1960. Farish addresses the global, national, laboratory\/think tank, and urban dimensions of how the Cold War created a new American socio-political consciousness that has not yet been left behind.\" —John Agnew, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A History of Cold War Spaces\u003cbr\u003e 1. Global Views: Geopolitics, Science, and Culture\u003cbr\u003e 2. Regional Intelligence: The Militarization of Geographical Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 3. Illuminating the Terrain: Social Science Finds Its Targets\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Cybernetic Continent: North America as Defense Laboratory\u003cbr\u003e 5. Anxious Urbanism: Strategies for the Atomic City\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Into Space\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Publication History\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405957144919,"sku":"9780816648436","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816648436.jpg?v=1730494040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-contours-of-americas-cold-war-9780816648436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}