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.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 普利策 國際關係 Walter_A_McDougall
外行讀史學常常淹死在細節裏。雖然30多年前的研究,現在看來敘述走嚮都還站得很穩,尤其對美國如何在Sputnik之後過渡到technocracy梳理得很清楚。今天各種國傢主導的initiative,program層齣不齣,大傢對technocracy習以為常,曆史根源還是在美蘇爭霸中奠定的。
評分外行讀史學常常淹死在細節裏。雖然30多年前的研究,現在看來敘述走嚮都還站得很穩,尤其對美國如何在Sputnik之後過渡到technocracy梳理得很清楚。今天各種國傢主導的initiative,program層齣不齣,大傢對technocracy習以為常,曆史根源還是在美蘇爭霸中奠定的。
評分外行讀史學常常淹死在細節裏。雖然30多年前的研究,現在看來敘述走嚮都還站得很穩,尤其對美國如何在Sputnik之後過渡到technocracy梳理得很清楚。今天各種國傢主導的initiative,program層齣不齣,大傢對technocracy習以為常,曆史根源還是在美蘇爭霸中奠定的。
評分1989年普利策奬曆史類獲奬著作,是瞭解美蘇冷戰期間的太空競賽如何反映和影響兩國的政治、經濟和文化的最好參考。尤其對美國60年代的科技與國傢政策及政治的爭論(technocracy)有著十分詳盡的描述。
評分1989年普利策奬曆史類獲奬著作,是瞭解美蘇冷戰期間的太空競賽如何反映和影響兩國的政治、經濟和文化的最好參考。尤其對美國60年代的科技與國傢政策及政治的爭論(technocracy)有著十分詳盡的描述。
The Heavens and the Earth 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載