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Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Surveillance Strategies to Control Natural Resources
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Monitoring the Earth: Nuclear Weapon Programs
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Seeing the Sea—From Above and Below
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Surveillance Technologies
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From Surveillance to Environmental Monitoring
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Reviews
“Individual essays could be useful assigned reading in advanced university courses in history of science, technology, and the Cold War … . Academic historians and policy analysts will find in this text a trove of information about the remarkably expansive use of planetary science data during the Cold War and valuable context for the current, politically charged debate over big data surveillance that represents the legacy of these earlier programs.” (Lisa Ruth Rand, Quest, Vol. 23 (1), 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Matthew Adamson, McDaniel College, Hungary Soraya Boudia, University Paris-Est, Marne la Vallée, France. Lino Camprubí, University Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain. Roberto Cantoni, University of Manchester, UK. James R. Fleming, Colby College, USA. Sebastian Grevsmühl, UPMC, France. Néstor Herran, UPMC, France Roger Launius, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Robert Poole, University of Central Lancashire, UK. Sam Robinson, CHSTM, University of Manchester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Surveillance Imperative
Book Subtitle: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond
Editors: Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438744
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43872-0Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49407-1Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43874-4Published: 17 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political History, History of Science, Modern History, Earth Sciences, general, World History, Global and Transnational History