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The nuclear age in popular media : a transnational history, 1945-1965
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The nuclear age in popular media : a transnational history, 1945-1965

Author: Dick van Lente
Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series: Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dick van Lente
ISBN: 9780230340909 0230340903
OCLC Number: 805011746
Description: x, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: a Transnational History of Popular Images and Narratives of Nuclear Technologies in the First Two Post-war Decades; D.van Lente Shaping the Soviet Experience of the Atomic Age: Nuclear Topics in Ogonyok, 1945-1965; S.D.Schmid 'To See ... Things Dangerous to Come to': Life Magazine and the Atomic Age in the United States, 1945-1965; S.C.Zeman Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies; D.L.Augustine 'Dawn - Or Dusk?': Britain's Picture Post Confronts Nuclear Energy; C.Laucht Nuclear Power, World Politics, and a Small Nation: Narratives and Counter-narratives in the Netherlands; D.van Lente Nuclear Power Plants in 'the Only A-bombed Country': Images of Nuclear Power and Nation's Changing Self-portrait in Post-war Japan; H.Utsumi Promises of Indian Modernity: Representations of Nuclear Technology in the Illustrated Weekly of India; H-J.Bieber Conclusion: One World, Two Worlds, Many Worlds?; D.Augustine & D.van Lente
Series Title: Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
Responsibility: edited by Dick van Lente.
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