Ice and Snow in the Cold War (eBook)

Julia Herzberg Professor for the History of East Central Europe and Russia in Early Modern Times at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. She is currently working on an environmental history of “frost” in Russia that scrutinizes various social and cultural aspects of Russia’s harsh climate. Over the last few years she has done research on the environmental history of Central Eastern Europe and Russia. Her publications include the collection Umweltgeschichte(n): Ostmitteleuropa von der Industrialisierung bis zum Postsozialismus (2013), coedited with Martin Zückert und Horst Förster.

Christian Kehrt is professor of history of science and technology at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany. His research interests lie in the cultural history of science, technology and the environment.

Franziska Torma works on the history of marine biology at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich (project funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG). Her research interests include the history of science and the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

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INTRODUCTIONS

Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma

Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration
Sverker Sörlin

PART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in Switzerland
Dania Achermann

Chapter 2. “An Orgy of Hypothesizing”: The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America
Janet Martin-Nielsen

Chapter 3. “Camp Century” and “Project Iceworm”: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries
Ingo Heidbrink

Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland
Sophie Elixhauser

PART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION

Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties
Roger D. Launius

Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of Bouvetøya
Peder Roberts and Lize-Marié van der Watt

Chapter 7. Managing the “White Death” in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s–1980s 189
Marc Elie

PART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOW

Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space
Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl

Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman
Carolin F. Roeder and Gregory Afinogenov

Chapter 10. Negotiating “Coldness”: The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk 253
Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller

Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989
Pascal Schillings

Conclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War
Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma

Index