Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically economically socially and culturally entangled geographies explores how cold war politics imperialism and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for todays globalized world. Entangled geographies empire and technopolitics in the global cold war the mit press cambridge massachusetts london england edited by gabrielle hecht acknowledgments ix 1 introduction 1 gabrielle hecht 2 islands the united states as a networked empire 13 ruth oldenziel 3 the uses of portability circulating experts in the technopolitics of cold war and decolonization 43 donna mehos and . Moreover cold war tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically economically socially and culturally entangled geographies explores how cold war politics imperialism and postcolonial nation . Moreover cold war tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically economically socially and culturally entangled geographies explores how cold war politics imperialism and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers . This item entangled geographies empire and technopolitics in the global cold war inside technology by gabrielle hecht paperback 3500 only 6 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom