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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Academic but mind-blowing,
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This review is from: The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Paperback)
I've read Masco's book twice now, and keep finding insights throughout it. This is not a straightforward narrative history of "how the bomb was developed." If you want such a book, there are hundreds out there. It is admittedly more academic in treatment, language (jargon), and scope than other books -- but I love the analogies, metaphors, and analysis that Joseph Masco brings to bear on the bomb (and I love alliteration).Along with Jake Kosek's "Understories" (Duke U Press), I'll be using this book next time I teach the Political Ecology of the Southwest. If you are an anthropologist, or just play one on weekends, and have any interest in what the atomic age has meant for the nation-state of the U.S., I urge you to read this book. Yesterday. |
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The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco (Hardcover - March 27, 2006)
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