ISBN:
9781349958504
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvi, 443 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
Series Statement:
European astroculture volume 3
Series Statement:
European astroculture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Militarizing Outer Space
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Astronautics and civilization History 20th century
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Cold War
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Space warfare
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Astronautics and civilization
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Space warfare
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History
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Konferenzschrift 2014
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 2014
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Konferenzsammelwerk
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Historische Darstellung
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Konferenzschrift
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Weltraum
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Militärpolitik
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Geschichte 1920-1990
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Europa
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Kultur
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Weltraum
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Militär
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Geschichte 1945-1990
Abstract:
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics
Note:
Konferenzdaten den "Acknowledgments" (s. Seite xi) entnommen und Datum im Internet ermittelt
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Includes bibliography (pages: 379-407) and index
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-349-95851-1
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