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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 Suzanne Moon 4 On the Fallacies of Cold War Nostalgia: Capitalism, Colonialism, and South African Nuclear Geographies 75 Gabrielle Hecht 5 Rare Earths: The Cold War in the Annals of Travancore 101 Itty Abraham 6 Nuclear Colonization?: Soviet Technopolitics in the Second World 125 Sonja D. Schmid 7 The Technopolitical Lineage of State Planning in Hungary, 1930–1956 155 Martha Lampland 8 Fifty Years’ Progress in Five: Brasilia—Modernization, Globalism, and the Geopolitics of Flight 185 Lars Denicke 9 Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia 209 Toby C. Jones Contents viii Contents 10 A Plundering Tiger with Its Deadly Cubs? The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a “Zimbabwean Nation,” 1945–2009 231 Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga 11 Cleaning Up the Cold War: Global Humanitarianism and the Infrastructure of Crisis Response 267 Peter Redfield Bibliography 293 About the Authors 329 Index 331 ...