Asif A. Siddiqi (New York Fordham University)

Broschiertes Buch

The Red Rockets' Glare

Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857 1957

Beschreibung

This book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history, arguing that Sputnik was the outcome of both large-scale state imperatives to harness science and technology and populist phenomena that frequently owed little to the whims and needs of the state apparatus.

Autor

Asif A. Siddiqi is an Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. He specializes in the social and cultural history of modern Russia and the history of science and technology. His work has been supported by the American Historical Association, the Smithsonian Institution, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His prior book, Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (2000), received a number of awards including a citation by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books ever written on space exploration. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and currently lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Centennial of Flight
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781107639324
• ISBN-10: 1107639328
• Artikelnr.: 40139100