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Papers by David Nye

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America. By Martin Melosi

Environmental History Review, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Dominance B31 Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006, 542 pp. $29.95)

Journal of Social History, Sep 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Consuming Images

Reviews in American History, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities , by Howard P. Segal, Wiley-Blackwell: West Sussex, 2012, 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-405-18328-4, US$35.95 (paperback)

Religion, 2014

... Ajouter au panier Ajouter au panier le livre de SEGAL Howard P. Date de parution : 03-2012 La... more ... Ajouter au panier Ajouter au panier le livre de SEGAL Howard P. Date de parution : 03-2012 Langue : ANGLAIS Env. ... past to present utopianism, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, through their flourishing in the Renaissance to the famous "dystopias" of Orwell, Huxley, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. By Gail Fenske. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24141-8

Business History Review, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Leo Marx's Legacy

American Studies in Scandinavia, May 10, 2023

An assessment of Leo Marx’s career, from his youth in New York and Paris, Harvard education, and ... more An assessment of Leo Marx’s career, from his youth in New York and Paris, Harvard education, and military service in World War II, to the major themes in his scholarship during 65 years of teaching at Minnesota, Amherst College, and MIT. Best known for his The Machine in the Garden, Marx was one of the founding scholars of American Studies, but he also made seminal contributions to the History of Technology and the environmental humanities. His work is a useful legacy for scholars assessing technological solutions proposed to deal with ecological crises.

Research paper thumbnail of The Photographic Experience, 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1995

... S. Fred Spira, Sandra Stelts, Sara Stevenson, Klaus Storsberg, John Taylor, Peeter Tooming, B... more ... S. Fred Spira, Sandra Stelts, Sara Stevenson, Klaus Storsberg, John Taylor, Peeter Tooming, Bud Wagner, Elizabeth Walters, Stanley Weintraub, Thomas M. We-prich, Peter and Phoebe Wilsher, J. Wilson, Philip Winsor, Erika Wolf, Kristi Wormhoudt, Vicky Ziegler, Jens Zorn. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Carroll Pursell . Technology in Postwar America: A History. xvi + 280 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth)

Research paper thumbnail of Max Oelschlaeger's 'The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age Ecology

American Studies in Scandinavia, Mar 1, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Energy Narratives

American Studies in Scandinavia, Sep 1, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Samlebåndet og det accelererende Amerika

Research paper thumbnail of Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9

Journal of American Studies, Apr 1, 1992

CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online a... more CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9. ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9. ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's Civilizing mission by Adas, M

Research paper thumbnail of Pioneers of Photography: Their Achievements in Science and Technology ed. by Eugene Ostroff

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts

A social history of power failures in New York City illustrates both the public's increasing... more A social history of power failures in New York City illustrates both the public's increasing dependence on electricity and its changing behavior during blackouts, as they shifted from being merely inconvenient (ca. 1910) to paralyzing events (1965 and after). Responses included aesthetic appreciation of the city as a new kind of landscape, a liminal experience of openness and sociability with strangers, criminal activity, especially looting and arson, and a heterotopian break with productivity, transforming the city into an anti-landscape ...

Research paper thumbnail of Americanization as Creolized Imaginary: The Statue of Liberty During the Cold War

Research paper thumbnail of Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon

Routledge eBooks, Oct 8, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Icons : magnets of meaning

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art eBooks, 1997

Icons, Magnets of Meaning provides an illust rated catalogue of twelve quintessential American ic... more Icons, Magnets of Meaning provides an illust rated catalogue of twelve quintessential American icons - in cluding blue jeans, surfboards, cosmetics and kitchen gadget s - and looks at the meanings behind these objects '

Research paper thumbnail of The Anti-Landscape

Research paper thumbnail of Electrifying Finland: The Transfer of a New Technology into a Late Industrialising Economy by Timo Myllyntaus

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1993

Institute of the Finnish Economy Series A15 ETLA is an independent, non-profit research instituti... more Institute of the Finnish Economy Series A15 ETLA is an independent, non-profit research institution, founded in 1946 to conduct research in the fields of economics, business and social policy, design d to erv financial and economic-policy decision-making. AI present the members of the association sponsoring ETLA are central associations of indu. try and employers, major banks and the central associ~ltion of in urance companie. ETLA al 0 conducts special studies financed from sources outside lh association, for which a separate unit has been established. In addition to books and research papers, which deal with various economic and social problems, the Research In titute regularly publishe short-term and medium-term forecasts. The forecasts are pUblished in English in the quarterly publication, The Finnish Economy. The results of the research projects are published in several different series, in scientific journals and jointly with international publisher. A list of publications is available from ETLA.

Research paper thumbnail of Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America. By Martin Melosi

Environmental History Review, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Dominance B31 Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. By Michael Adas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006, 542 pp. $29.95)

Journal of Social History, Sep 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Consuming Images

Reviews in American History, 1988

Research paper thumbnail of Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities , by Howard P. Segal, Wiley-Blackwell: West Sussex, 2012, 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-405-18328-4, US$35.95 (paperback)

Religion, 2014

... Ajouter au panier Ajouter au panier le livre de SEGAL Howard P. Date de parution : 03-2012 La... more ... Ajouter au panier Ajouter au panier le livre de SEGAL Howard P. Date de parution : 03-2012 Langue : ANGLAIS Env. ... past to present utopianism, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, through their flourishing in the Renaissance to the famous "dystopias" of Orwell, Huxley, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. By Gail Fenske. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008, xii + 399 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-24141-8

Business History Review, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Leo Marx's Legacy

American Studies in Scandinavia, May 10, 2023

An assessment of Leo Marx’s career, from his youth in New York and Paris, Harvard education, and ... more An assessment of Leo Marx’s career, from his youth in New York and Paris, Harvard education, and military service in World War II, to the major themes in his scholarship during 65 years of teaching at Minnesota, Amherst College, and MIT. Best known for his The Machine in the Garden, Marx was one of the founding scholars of American Studies, but he also made seminal contributions to the History of Technology and the environmental humanities. His work is a useful legacy for scholars assessing technological solutions proposed to deal with ecological crises.

Research paper thumbnail of The Photographic Experience, 1839-1914: Images and Attitudes

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1995

... S. Fred Spira, Sandra Stelts, Sara Stevenson, Klaus Storsberg, John Taylor, Peeter Tooming, B... more ... S. Fred Spira, Sandra Stelts, Sara Stevenson, Klaus Storsberg, John Taylor, Peeter Tooming, Bud Wagner, Elizabeth Walters, Stanley Weintraub, Thomas M. We-prich, Peter and Phoebe Wilsher, J. Wilson, Philip Winsor, Erika Wolf, Kristi Wormhoudt, Vicky Ziegler, Jens Zorn. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Carroll Pursell . Technology in Postwar America: A History. xvi + 280 pp., figs., bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. $35 (cloth)

Research paper thumbnail of Max Oelschlaeger's 'The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age Ecology

American Studies in Scandinavia, Mar 1, 1994

Research paper thumbnail of Energy Narratives

American Studies in Scandinavia, Sep 1, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Samlebåndet og det accelererende Amerika

Research paper thumbnail of Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9

Journal of American Studies, Apr 1, 1992

CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online a... more CJO Search Widget (Journal of American Studies) What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9. ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, £27.95). Pp. 289. ISBN 0 226 67075 9. ... Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Dominance by design : technological imperatives and America's Civilizing mission by Adas, M

Research paper thumbnail of Pioneers of Photography: Their Achievements in Science and Technology ed. by Eugene Ostroff

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts

A social history of power failures in New York City illustrates both the public's increasing... more A social history of power failures in New York City illustrates both the public's increasing dependence on electricity and its changing behavior during blackouts, as they shifted from being merely inconvenient (ca. 1910) to paralyzing events (1965 and after). Responses included aesthetic appreciation of the city as a new kind of landscape, a liminal experience of openness and sociability with strangers, criminal activity, especially looting and arson, and a heterotopian break with productivity, transforming the city into an anti-landscape ...

Research paper thumbnail of Americanization as Creolized Imaginary: The Statue of Liberty During the Cold War

Research paper thumbnail of Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon

Routledge eBooks, Oct 8, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Icons : magnets of meaning

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art eBooks, 1997

Icons, Magnets of Meaning provides an illust rated catalogue of twelve quintessential American ic... more Icons, Magnets of Meaning provides an illust rated catalogue of twelve quintessential American icons - in cluding blue jeans, surfboards, cosmetics and kitchen gadget s - and looks at the meanings behind these objects '

Research paper thumbnail of The Anti-Landscape

Research paper thumbnail of Electrifying Finland: The Transfer of a New Technology into a Late Industrialising Economy by Timo Myllyntaus

Technology and Culture, Apr 1, 1993

Institute of the Finnish Economy Series A15 ETLA is an independent, non-profit research instituti... more Institute of the Finnish Economy Series A15 ETLA is an independent, non-profit research institution, founded in 1946 to conduct research in the fields of economics, business and social policy, design d to erv financial and economic-policy decision-making. AI present the members of the association sponsoring ETLA are central associations of indu. try and employers, major banks and the central associ~ltion of in urance companie. ETLA al 0 conducts special studies financed from sources outside lh association, for which a separate unit has been established. In addition to books and research papers, which deal with various economic and social problems, the Research In titute regularly publishe short-term and medium-term forecasts. The forecasts are pUblished in English in the quarterly publication, The Finnish Economy. The results of the research projects are published in several different series, in scientific journals and jointly with international publisher. A list of publications is available from ETLA.