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| 資料類型： | 文獻, 網際網路資源 |
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| 文件類型 | 網際網路資源, 電腦檔案 |
| 所有的作者/貢獻者： |
Walter A MacDougall |
| ISBN: | 0801857481 9780801857485 0801857481 |
| OCLC系統控制編碼： | 819189548 |
| 獎賞： | Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History 1998 (United States) |
| 描述： | 1 online resource (xxiii, 555 p. :) : ill |
| 内容： | IllustrationsAbbreviations used in TextPreface to the Johns Hopkins EditionPrefaceIntroductionPart I. The Genesis of Sputnik1. The HUman Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution2. Political Rains and First Fruit: The Cold War and SputnikConclusionPart II. Modern Arms and Free Men: America Before Sputnik3. Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence4. While Waiting for Technology: The ICBM and the First American Space Program5. The Satellite DecisionConclusionPart III. Vanguard and Rearguard: Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy6. "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot7. The Birth of NASA8. A Space Strategy for the United States9. Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest10. The Shape of Things to ComeConclusionPart IV: Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy11. Party Line12. The Missle Bluff13. Hammers or Sickles in Space?14. Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian SynthesisConclusionPart V: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation15. Destination Moon16. Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction17. Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy18. Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America19. Second ThoughtsConclusionPart VI. The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years20. Voyages to Tsiolkovskia21. The Quest for a G.O.D.22. A Fire in the SunAppendixAbbreviations used in NotesNotesIndex |
| 其他題名： | CLS Humanities E-Book |
| 責任： | Walter A. McDougall. |
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Exhaustively researched, brilliantly conceived, and beautifully written. New York Times Book Review A lucid and comprehensive political history of the American, European, and Russian space programs. New Scientist Once every decade or so, a book comes along that stands by itself as a remarkable contribution to the literature of a field. Such a work is Walter A. McDougall's ... the Heavens and the Earth. Technology and Culture [A] boldly conceived, elegantly written, and unfailingly provocative history of the new age of space. Science This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific [An] immensely readable and elegant book. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 再讀一些...
