Between regions: Science, militarism, and American geography from World War to Cold War

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 807-826

  Barnes, Trevor J ^a   Farish, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold war; Region; Second world war; Technoscience

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; KNOWLEDGE; POLITICAL HISTORY; REGIONAL POLITICS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747752286     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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