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German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era Hardcover - 2015
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- Title German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era
- Author Monique Laney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Hardback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven and London
- Date 2015-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780300198034 / 0300198035
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (24.13 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: German
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Locality: Huntsville, Alabama
- Library of Congress subjects Aerospace engineers - United States, Rocketry - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014042886
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.409
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Hardback. New. This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers' families, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology,…
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