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Hardback. New. 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 soon after 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 recent Nazi war effort, 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, and by the rocketeers' families, 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,…
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German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era Tapa dura - 2015
de Monique Laney
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- Título German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era
- Autor Monique Laney
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición Hardback
- Páginas 320
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Yale University Press, New Haven and London
- Fecha de publicación 2015-06
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780300198034 / 0300198035
- Peso 1.4 libras (0.64 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 pulgadas (24.13 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: German
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Locality: Huntsville, Alabama
- Library of Congress subjects Aerospace engineers - United States, Rocketry - 20th century
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2014042886
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.409
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