Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

Broschiertes Buch

Atomic Junction

Beschreibung

Examining the quest for nuclear power in Africa through the case of Ghana's Atomic Energy Commission, this comprehensive history of nuclear research places archival sources alongside interviews with town leaders, physicists and entrepreneurs to explore the impact of these scientific pursuits on Ghanaian society.

Autor

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin, holds a secondary appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at the University of Texas's Dell Medical School, and is a serving member of the editorial boards of Endeavour and Social History of Medicine. She is the author of Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (2014), which was awarded the Melville J. Herskovits Prize in African Studies and the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108457378
• ISBN-10: 1108457371
• Artikelnr.: 56018932