Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Bassett, Ross, “Aligning India in the Cold War Era: Indian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Oct. 2009), 283–810.
Diogo, Maria Paula, “The Normativities of Engineers: Engineering Education and History of Technology,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Oct. 2009), 737–52.
Harold Varmus, “Science Publishing and Science Libraries in the Internet Age,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (June 2009), 160–84.
Ishiyama, Noriko, “Nebada jikkenjô to Yakka-maunten” (Nevada test site and Yucca mountain: The construction of nuclear space and racism), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 57–76. In Japanese.
Kurosaki, Akira, “Kakuheiki tono kyôzon o mosakusuru kagakusha” (The Pugwash conferences and American scientists’ quest for disarmament and stable mutual deterrence, 1955–1963), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 77–97. In Japanese.
Launius, Roger D., “Abandoned in Place: Interpreting the U.S. Material Culture of the Moon Race,” Public Historian, 31 (Aug. 2009), 9–38.
Nubiola, Jaime, “Reasonableness Really Is,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 45 (Spring 2009), 125–34.
Phillips, Del, “Cromwell Dixon: The World’s Youngest Aviator,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Autumn 2009), 46–66. Heavily illustrated.
Richmond, Jesse, “Design and Dissent: Religion, Authority, and the Scientific Spirit of Robert Boom,” Isis, 100 (Sept. 2009), 485–504.
Wisnioski, Matthew, “‘Liberal Education Has Failed’: Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Oct. 2009), 753–82.
Dawson, Bret Maxwell, “tv Repair: New Media ‘Solutions’ to Old Media Problems” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336543.
Eisler, Matthew Nicholas, “Fueling Dreams of Grandeur: Fuel Cell Research and Development and the Pursuit of the Technolocial Panacea, 1940–2005” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR45418.
Gallo, Jason, “Speaking of Science: The Role of the National Science Foundation in the Development of United States Information Infrastructure” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331106.
Guenther, Michael B., “Enlightened Pursuits: Science and Civic Culture in Anglo-America, 1730–1760” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336448.
Lawson, Sean Trevor, “Info[at]war.mil: Nonlinear Science and the Emergence of Information Age Warfare in the United States Military” (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3342871.
Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael, “Fallible Guardian: The Social Construction of Railroad Telegraphy in 19th-Century America” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3337423.
Wells, Stephen H., “William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism” (Duquesne University, 2008). Order No. DA3338624.
Badash, Lawrence, A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009. xvi, 403 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-262-01272-0.)
Edwards, John Carver, Orville’s Aviators: Outstanding Alumni of the Wright Flying School, 1910–1916. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 189 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4227-0.)
Ehlers, Robert S., Jr., Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xviii, 422 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1682-4.)
Fredriksen, John C., The B-45 Tornado: An Operational History of the First American Jet Bomber. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 264 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4278-2.)
Gallentine, Jay, Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xviii, 500 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2220-5.)
Hunner, Jon, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xvi, 248 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4046-9.)
Metzger, Lynn, and Peg Bobel, eds., Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal from Waterway to Canalway. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 382 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60635-013-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Middleton, William D., and William D. Middleton III, Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xviii, 314 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-253-35383-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Nishikawa, Junko, Amerika kôkûuchû sangyô (American aerospace industry). (Tokyo: Nihonkeizai Hyoronsha, 2008. 321 pp. ¥4,500, isbn 978-4-8188-1964-1.) In Japanese.
Noll, Steven, and David Tegeder, Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s Future. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xii, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3406-5.)
Reiser, Stanley Joel, Technological Medicine: The Changing World of Doctors and Patients. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 229 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-521-83569-5.)
Smith, Duane A., The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859–2009. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xiv, 282 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-87081-957-5.)
Taylor, Paul, Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xx, 354 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-60635-040-9.)
Werrell, Kenneth P., Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xvi, 332 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-59114-940-8.)
Chertok, Boris, Rockets and People, vol. 3: Hot Days of the Cold War. (Washington: nasa, 2009. xxxiv, 796 pp. Cloth, $25.00, isbn 978-0-16-081735-5.)
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