The Lab and the Land: Overcoming the Arctic in Cold War Alaska

ABSTRACT The militarization of Alaska during and after World War II created an extraordinary set of new facilities. But it also reshaped the imaginative role of Alaska as a hostile environment, where an antagonistic form of nature could be defeated with the appropriate combination of technology and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Isis. - University of Chicago Press. - 104(2013), 1, Seite 1-29
1. Verfasser: Farish, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Isis
Schlagworte:Political science Physical sciences Business Applied sciences Biological sciences