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  • Die Zukunft des 20. Jahrhunderts

    Dimensionen einer historischen Zukunftsforschung

    In der Geschichtswissenschaft lässt sich in den vergangenen Jahren eine Hinwendung zu Fragen der Zeitlichkeit beobachten. Insbesondere Zukunftsentwürfe erfahren dabei große Aufmerksamkeit: Sie stellen für Historiker eine Möglichkeit dar, sich historischen Systembrüchen aus ganz neuen Perspektiven zu nähern. Denn die klassische Geschichtsschreibung tendiert dazu, die Vergangenheit als Vorlauf der ... Leer más

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  • Militarizing Outer Space

    Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War

    Series series History (R0)
    Militarizing Outer Spaceexplores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the SpaceAge and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, ... Leer más

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  • Imagining Outer Space

    European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century

    Edición de Alexander C.T. Geppert ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been ... Leer más

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  • Limiting Outer Space

    Astroculture After Apollo

    Edición de Alexander C.T. Geppert ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave ... Leer más

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    The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space

    Is it possible that the famous American moon landings were nothing but an illusion - a fabrication? Could NASA have fooled the world by broadcasting simulations that had been filmed for training purposes? From the very first manned flight into orbit right up to the present day there have been serious anomalies in the official narrative of the conquest of space. Bestselling author Gerhard Wisnewski ... Leer más

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  • Rise of the Machines

    de Thomas Rid ...
    "Dazzling.” —Financial TimesAs lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas.Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of ... Leer más

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  • Human-Built World

    How to Think about Technology and Culture

    Series series science.culture
    To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western ... Leer más

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  • Star Trek and History

    Edición de Nancy R. Reagin ...
    Series Libro 5 - Wiley Pop Culture and History Series
    A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek?just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movieFor a series set in our future, Star Trek revisits the past constantly. Kirk and Spock battle Nazis, Roman gladiators, and witness the Great Depression. When they're not doubling back on their own earlier timelines, the crew uses the holodeck to spend time in the American Old West or ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Future

    In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the twentieth century. Utilising science fiction, popular science literature and the novels of the literary elite, Bowler highlights contested responses to the potential for revolutionary social change brought ... Leer más

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  • Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

    de Neil M. Maher ...
    In summer 1969, astronauts landed on the moon and hippie hordes descended on Woodstock—two era-defining events that are not entirely coincidental. Neil M. Maher shows how NASA’s celestial aspirations were tethered to terrestrial concerns of the time: the civil rights struggle, the antiwar movement, environmentalism, feminism, and the culture wars. ... Leer más

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  • How Not to Network a Nation

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  • Astounding Wonder

    Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

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