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Imagining Outer Space
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and …
Empire and Science in the Making
Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and …
Exploring the Solar System
Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to …
The Nuclear Age in Popular Media
The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book …
Globalizing Polar Science
The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by …
A Vision of Modern Science
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing …
NASA in the World
Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This …
Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between …
The Sociable Sciences
This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural …
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era
Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air …
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to …
The First Atomic Age
At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking …