Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism

by James Spiller

Overview

This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, especially the nationalist motif of the frontier, were used to garner public support for these strategic initiatives and, more generally, United States internationalism during this period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137507860
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

James Spiller is Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Polar Stars and Stellar Stripes
1.Rising to the Sputnik Challenge
2.The Space and Antarctic Frontiers
3.Antarctica and the Greening of America
4.The Tenacious Grip of the Space Frontier
Conclusion: The End of American Frontier Nationality

Editorial Reviews

Frontiers for the American Century is a sophisticated, nuanced, and welcome study of the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs. … the book is a fascinating study of the complex and changing motif of the American frontier in the context of outer space and Antarctic exploration. … Spiller thus gives welcome fine structure to one of the overarching frameworks of the Space Age … .” (Steven J. Dick, Isis, Vol. 108 (1), March, 2017)

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