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INTRODUCTIONS
Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma
Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration
Sverker Sorlin
PART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in Switzerland
Dania Achermann
Chapter 2. An Orgy of Hypothesizing: The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War America
Janet Martin-Nielsen
Chapter 3. Camp Century and Project Iceworm: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service Rivalries
Ingo Heidbrink
Chapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East Greenland
Sophie Elixhauser
PART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATION
Chapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties
Roger D. Launius
Chapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of Bouvetya
Peder Roberts and Lize-Marie van der Watt
Chapter 7. Managing the White Death in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s1980s
Marc Elie
PART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOW
Chapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to Space
Sebastian Vincent Grevsmuhl
Chapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman
Carolin F. Roeder and Gregory Afinogenov
Chapter 10. Negotiating Coldness: The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-Severodvinsk
Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller
Chapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messners Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989
Pascal Schillings
Conclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold War
Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma
Index