How Outer Space Made America: Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime

How Outer Space Made America: Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime
ISBN-10
1472423666
ISBN-13
9781472423665
Category
Social Science
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2014-11-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Daniel Sage

Description

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

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