The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks : A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic /
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Author / Creator: | Cavallaro, Umberto, author. |
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Uniform title: | Propaganda e pragmatismo. English |
Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Springer ; Chichester, UK : published in association with Springer Praxis Publishing, [2018] ©2018 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Springer-Praxis books, space exploration Springer-Praxis books in space exploration. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11718187 |
Related Items: | Translation of:
Propaganda e pragmatismo. |
ISBN: | 9783319921532 3319921533 9783319921525 3319921525 9783319921525 9783319921549 3319921541 |
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 10, 2018). |
Summary: | The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time. Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United States. |
Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319921525 Printed edition: 9783319921549 |
Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-92153-2 10.1007/978-3-319-92 |
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