Ice and Snow in the Cold War : : Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments / / ed. by Julia Herzberg, Franziska Torma, Christian Kehrt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Achermann, Dania,; Afinogenov, Gregory,; Elie, Marc,; Elixhauser, Sophie,; Emeliantseva Koller, Ekaterina,; Heidbrink, Ingo,; Herzberg, Julia,; Kehrt, Christian,; Launius, Roger D.,; Martin-Nielsen, Janet,; Roberts, Peder,; Roeder, Carolin F.,; Schillings, Pascal,; Sörlin, Sverker,; Torma, Franziska,; Vincent Grevsmühl, Sebastian,; Watt, Lize-Marié van der,
• HerausgeberIn: Herzberg, Julia,; Kehrt, Christian,; Torma, Franziska,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)

The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introductions -- Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War -- Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration -- Part I. Science: Sites of Knowledge -- Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? Th e Institutionalization of a Scientifi c Discipline in Switzerland -- Chapter 2. “An Orgy of Hypothesizing”: Th e Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America -- Chapter 3. “Camp Century” and “Project Iceworm”: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries -- Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland -- Part II. Politics of Confrontation and Cooperation -- Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties -- Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? Th e Case of Bouvetøya -- Chapter 7. Managing the “White Death” in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s–1980s -- Part III. Cultures and Narratives of Ice and Snow -- Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space -- Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman -- Chapter 10. Negotiating “Coldness”: Th e Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk -- Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989 -- Conclusion. Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War -- Index