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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Paperback - 1997

by Walter A. McDougall

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1986, this highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on exhaustive research, author and ORBIS editor Walter A. McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. 25 illustrations.

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A widely acclaimed history of the space age.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History

This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"--which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.

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  • Title The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
  • Author Walter A. McDougall
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 584
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-10-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801857485 / 0801857481
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Astronautics and state - United States, Astronautics - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97016876
  • Dewey Decimal Code 387.809

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  • Publishers Weekly, 09/29/1997, Page 0

About the author

Walter A. McDougall is Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, and editor of Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. He is also author of France's Rhineland Diplomacy, 1914-1942: The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in Europe.

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