Globalizing polar science: reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour. ROGER D. LAUNIUS Senior Curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C, USA.. JAMES R. FLEMING Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Colby College, Maine, USA. . DAVID DEVORKIN Senior Curator, Astronomy and the Space Sciences, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C, USA. INDICE: Introduction: 'Rise of a Global Scientific Inquiry: The International Polar and Geophysical Years'; 'R.D.Launius, D.H.DeVorkin '&' J.R.Fleming -'PART I: MEANINGS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY - A Polar Perspective;'M.A.Dennis - 'Making Science Global? Coordinated Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Science; 'M.Rothenberg - 'Publishing Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the First International Polar Year; 'P.N.Cronenwett - 'Toward the Poles: A Historiography of Scientific Exploration during the International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year; 'R.D.Launius' - PART II: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES - Going Global in Polar Exploration: Nineteenth-Century American and British Nationalism and Peacetime Science; 'C.Carter - 'Swedish Polar Policies from the First International Polar Year to the Present; 'L.Lewander - 'The Polar Years and Japan; 'W.R.Stevenson III - 'China and the International Geophysical Year; 'Z.Wang '&' J.Zhang - 'PART III: NETWORKED PERSONALITIES AND PROGRAMS - Approaching the Southern Hemisphere: The German Pathway in the Nineteenth Century; 'C.Lüdecke - 'Sydney Chapman: Dynamo behind the International Geophysical Year; 'G.A.Good - 'Lloyd Berkner and the International Geophysical Year Proposal in Context: With Some Comments on the Implications for the Comité Spéciale de l'Année Géophysique Internationale, CSAGI, Request for Launching Earth Orbiting Satellites; 'A.A.Needell - 'Polar and Global Meteorology in the Career of Harry Wexler, 1933b 1962; 'J.R.Fleming - 'PART IV: NATIONAL ROLES FOR INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE: QUESTS AND QUESTIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR - Science, Environment, and Sovereignty: The InternationalGeophysical Year in the Antarctic Peninsula; 'A.Howkins - 'The International Geophysical Year in Antarctica: A Triumph of 'Apolitical' Science, Politics, and Peace; 'D.Olson Belanger - 'Tracking Diplomacy: The International Geophysical Year and American Scientific and Technical Exchange with East Asia; 'T.Muir-Harmony - 'Geodesy, Time, and the Markowitz Moon Camera Program: An Interwoven International Geophysical Year Story; 'S.J.Dick - 'PART V: LEGACIES OF GLOBAL SCIENCE: SPACE SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND EARTH SCIENCE - The International Geophysical Year and Planetary Science; 'E.M.Conway - 'Polar Politics, Historical Narratives, and Saami Prehistory; 'N.D.Broadbent - 'Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, since the International Geophysical Year: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Evolution of Earth Science; 'D.M.Thamattoor - ' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10533-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido