Farish, Matthew

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"This book is a history of the imaginative geographies that came to define the American Cold War. It is a genealogical study that aims to demystify four spatial scales: the globe, the region, the continent, and the city"--Introduction.

In The Contours of America's Cold War, Matthew Farish explores new ways of conceptualizing space as part of post-World War II American militarism. He demonstrates how the social sciences were militarized in the early Cold War period, producing spatial knowledge that was of immed…