Title Cold science : environmental knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War / edited by Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) Series Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; 38 Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 38. Contents Introduction : Cold War science in the North American Arctic / Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt -- Ice and the depths of the ocean : probing Greenland's Melville Bay during the Cold War/ Mark Nuttall -- 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 -- Frontier footage : science and colonial attitudes on film in Northern Canada, 1948-1954 / Matthew S. Wiseman -- 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 -- Arctic pipelines and permafrost science : North American rivalries in the shadow of the Cold War, 1968-1982 / Robert Page -- Cold oil : linking strategic and resource science in the Canadian Arctic / Stephen Bocking -- Icebergs in Iowa : Saudi dreams, Antarctic hydrologics and the production of Cold War environmental knowledge / Rafico Ruiz -- Science and Indigenous knowledge in land claims settlements : negotiating the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, 1977-1978 / Andrew Stuhl -- 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 -- Institutions and the changing nature of Arctic research during the early Cold War / Lize-Marié van der Watt, Peder Roberts, and Julia Lajus -- Rockets over Thule? American hegemony, ionosphere research and the politics of rockets in the wake of the 1968 Thule B-52 accident / Henrik Knudsen -- 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 -- Melting the ice curtain : indigeneity and the Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program, 1982-1988 / Tess Lanzarotta -- Antarctic science and the Cold War / Adrian Howkins Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Science and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century Science and state -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Political aspects HISTORY -- World. HISTORY -- General. HISTORY -- Polar Regions. Research Science and state SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Research -- History -- 20th century Subject Arctic Regions Canada United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bocking, Stephen, 1959- editor. Heidt, Daniel, 1985- editor. LC no. 2020693199 ISBN 9781315172736 1315172739 9781351698740 1351698745 9781351698757 1351698753 9781351698733 1351698737

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