Ice And Snow In The Cold War

Author : Julia Herzberg,Christian Kehrt,Franziska Torma
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785339875

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Ice and Snow in the Cold War by Julia Herzberg,Christian Kehrt,Franziska Torma Pdf

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.”

Author : Ronald E. Doel,Kristine C. Harper,Matthias Heymann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137596888

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Exploring Greenland by Ronald E. Doel,Kristine C. Harper,Matthias Heymann Pdf

Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark. It reveals a fascinating yet little-known realm of Cold War intrigue and a delicate diplomatic duet between a smaller state and a superpower amid a time of intense global pressures. Written by scholars in Denmark and the United States, this book explores many compelling topics. What led to the creation of the U.S. Thule Air Base in Greenland, one of the world’s largest, and why did the U.S. build a nuclear-powered city under Greenland’s ice cap? How did Danish concern about sovereignty shape scientific research programs in Greenland? Also explored here: why did Denmark’s most famous scientist, Inge Lehmann, became involved in research in Greenland, and what international reverberations resulted from the crash of a U.S. B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons near Thule in January 1968?

Author : Ulrich Hinse
Publisher : EDITION digital
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783965212015

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Black Ice Agent - A Cold War Story by Ulrich Hinse Pdf

It is the black ice spy Reiner Paul Fülle, about whom part of his life story is told in this novel. Born in Zwickau and came to the West as a child, Fülle was recruited by the State Security as a young man while visiting his relatives in Thuringia. A spy at the MfS since 1964, he supplied information from the Karlsruhe nuclear research facility to the GDR for adventure and money. On January 19, 1979, Reiner Paul Fülle was arrested by the BKA. He escaped and was brought to the GDR in a wooden box a few days later by the Soviet military mission. Because the BKA officials slipped on black ice during the persecution, abundance was referred to in the German media as black ice spy. Not least because he was very reluctant to be spanked or prescribed, and because his wife persistently refused to move to the GDR, he made his return to the Federal Republic of Germany. Filled with false papers, Fülle returned in late 1981.

Author : MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474410403

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Films on Ice by MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie Pdf

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity.

Author : Julia Herzberg,Andreas Renner,Ingrid Schierle
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800731288

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The Russian Cold by Julia Herzberg,Andreas Renner,Ingrid Schierle Pdf

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.

Author : Joseph Boskin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815650508

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Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War by Joseph Boskin Pdf

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Pentagon was organizing a top-secret, scientific expeditionary unit, the Transportation Arctic Group (TRARG). Consisting of 275 military members and a cluster of civilian scientists from the United States and other countries, TRARG was sent to Thule Air Force Base, located on the west coast of northern Greenland. Its ostensible purpose was to map the terrain and test complex equipment at the edges of the Ice Cap. The covert objective, however, was to determine the feasibility of constructing yet another air base on the other side of Greenland, one that would be much closer to the enemy. As the sole historian of the unit, Corporal Boskin was responsible for compiling and transmitting weekly progress reports to the Pentagon and, at the conclusion of the mission, for assisting in the final assessment. The multivolume report was itself technically worthy, yet it possessed barely a hint of the personal story: the outsized characters, the dark comedy and real tragedy, the frustrations and waste, and the ongoing tug’of’war between the company commander and his corporal historian over the status of the report’s basic contents. Here Boskin tells that story, a keenly observed narrative that delivers both the absurd and the sublime in equal measure.

Author : David Armitage,Alison Bashford,Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423182

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Oceanic Histories by David Armitage,Alison Bashford,Sujit Sivasundaram Pdf

Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : OSU:32435032241879

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Soldiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Brook,Martin Dodge,Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351330640

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Cold War Cities by Richard Brook,Martin Dodge,Jonathan Hogg Pdf

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities. The Cold War saw the birth of ‘atomic urbanisation’, central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the ‘Bomb’ manifest itself in civic governance, popular media, arts and academia? Understanding the age of atomic urbanism can help meet the contemporary challenges that cities are facing. The book delivers a new dimension to the existing debates of the ideologically opposed superpowers and their allies, their hemispherical geopolitical struggles, and helps to understand decades of growth post-Second World War by foregrounding the Cold War.

Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461706236

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Ice Crusaders by Thomas Wolf Pdf

A blend of memoir and history detailing the story of soldier-athletes who comprised the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

Author : Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000366372

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Visual Representations of the Arctic by Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov Pdf

Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region

Author : Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231554251

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Camp Century by Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen Pdf

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life, Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United States and its Arctic allies, Denmark and Greenland, to the risks of radioactive waste abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army’s “city under the ice.” Beginning with the Truman administration’s vision of military superiority in the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.

Author : Klaus Dodds,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509504022

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The Scramble for the Poles by Klaus Dodds,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice. But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to reveal a complex picture of the so-called scramble for the poles. Whilst anxieties over the potential for conflict and the destruction of what is often perceived as the world's last wildernesses have come to dominate Polar debates and are, to some extent, justified, their study also highlights longer historical and geographical patterns and processes of human activity in these remote territories. Over the past century, Polar landscapes have been probed, drilled, fished, tested on and dug up, as their indigenous populations have struggled to protect their rights and interests. No longer remote places, or themselves 'poles apart' from one another, the contemporary geopolitics of the Polar regions has lessons for us all as we confront a warming world where access to resources is a concern for states, big and small.

Author : J. R. McNeill,Corinna R. Unger,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521762441

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Environmental Histories of the Cold War by J. R. McNeill,Corinna R. Unger,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Pdf

Explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism.

Author : Pey-Yi Chu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501938

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Life of Permafrost by Pey-Yi Chu Pdf

By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.