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histories of extreme climatic environments
Exploring ice and snow in the Cold War / Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, Franziska Torma -- Cryo-history: ice, snow, and the great acceleration / Sverker Sörlin -- Snow and avalanche research as patriotic duty: the institutionalization of a scientific discipline in Switzerland / Dania Achermann -- "An orgy of hypothesizing": the construction of glaciological knowledge in Cold War America / Janet Martin-Nielsen -- "Camp Century" and "Project Iceworm": Greenland as a stage for US military service rivalries / Ingo Heidbrink -- Inuit responses to Arctic militarization: examples from Greenland / Sophie Elixhauser -- Creating open territorial rights in cold and icy places: Cold War rivalries and the Antarctic and outer space treaties / Roger D. Launius -- An environment too extreme: the case of Bouvetøya / Peder Roberts, Lize-Marie van der Watt -- Managing the "white death" in Cold War Soviet Union: snow avalanches, ice science, and winter sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1980s / Marc Elie -- Laboratory metaphors in Antarctic history: from nature to space / Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl -- Cold War creatures: Soviet science and the problem of the abominable snowman / Carolin F. Roeder, Gregory Afinogenov -- Negotiating "coldness": the natural environment, the bonus of the far north, and community cohesion in Brezhnev era Severodvinsk / Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller -- An exploration of the self: Reinhold Messner's transantarctic expedition of 1989 / Pascal Schillings.
edited by Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.