Undersea Geopolitics - Sealab, Science, and the Cold War

This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy during the Cold War (Project Genesis, Sealab I, II and III).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Towards the 'Deep Dark Sea'
2. 'Taking Chances for all of Mankind': Taming the Underwater Frontier
3. Domesticating and Dishwashing: Making Home on the Seafloor
4. 'A Breed Apart': Taking the Measure of Man
5. 'Think Helium': Submarine Pressures and Elemental Entanglements
6. Companions, Zappers, and Invaders: The Animals of Sealab
7. From Sealab to Skylab: Inhabiting Extremes
8. Conclusions

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kyong Yoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Zusammenfassung

This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the US Navy during the Cold War (Project Genesis, Sealab I, II and III).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachael Squire
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786607300
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-730-0
• Seiten: 180
• Serien: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds; Geopolitical Bodies, Material
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Human Geography