Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9781137507860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 269 str.

James Spiller

Opis

Space and Antarctic exploration were the most dramatic endeavors of the Cold War. Employing the latest science and technology to explore the remaining frontiers, these programs were designed to stimulate an American Century of freedom and prosperity for humankind. However, these programs came to represent distinctive aspects of the ideal U.S. leadership of the 'Free World.' Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism by James Spiller explores the cultural politics, nationalism, and history that led these programs to different paths of celestial pioneering and environmental guardianship.

Recenzje

"Frontiers for the American Century is a sophisticated, nuanced, and welcome study of the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs. ... the book is a fascinating study of the complex and changing motif of the American frontier in the context of outer space and Antarctic exploration. ... Spiller thus gives welcome fine structure to one of the overarching frameworks of the Space Age ... ." (Steven J. Dick, Isis, Vol. 108 (1), March, 2017)

O autorze

James Spiller is Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA.