Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Více informací o knize German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 104 bodů

Anotace knihy

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the Nazi war effort a decade earlier, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, the rocketeers' families, and co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the "Space Race," and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.

Parametry knihy

Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Plný název: German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie
• Podnázev: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era
• Autor: Monique Laney
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 320
• EAN: 9780300198034
• ISBN: 0300198035
• ID: 09030728
• Nakladatelství: Yale University Press
• Hmotnost: 668 g
• Rozměry: 245 × 167 × 30 mm
• Datum vydání: 03. July 2015

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---