Ocean Science and the British Cold War State

• Main Author: Robinson, Samuel A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; Great Britain-History.; Oceanography.; World politics.; History, Modern.; History of Science.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Modern History.

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of 'enemy science', along with administrative practice info...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Oceanographers at War
• 3 De-mobbing British Oceanography: The Post-War Needs of Science
• 4 Collaboration for Defence, Intelligence and Internationalism
• 5 Oceanographers and Surveillance
• 6 'Militant Science': Behind Britain's 'Technocratic' Moment
• 7 New Frontiers of Oceanology and 'Environmentalism'
• 8 Conclusion.