Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Bycroft, Michael, “The Trials of Theory: Psychology and Institutional Economics, 1910–1931,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Spring 2010), 144–64.
Fontainea, Philippe, “Stabilizing American Society: Kenneth Boulding and the Integration of the Social Sciences, 1943–1980,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 23 (June 2010), 221–65.
Guise-Richardson, Cai, “Redefining Vulcanization: Charles Goodyear, Patents, and Industrial Control, 1834–1865,” Technology and Culture, 51 (April 2010), 357–87.
Heukelom, Floris, “Measurement and Decision Making at the University of Michigan in the 1950s and 1960s,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Spring 2010), 189–207.
La Barre, Kathryn, “Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Weaving Value from the Past,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 210–37.
Lucier, Paul, “The Professional and the Scientist in Nineteenth-Century America,” Isis, 100 (Dec. 2009), 699–732.
Lyman, Edward Leo, “Development of the Abraham, Millard County, Irrigation Project, 1889–1900,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Spring 2010), 118–33.
Madureiraa, Nuno Luís, “Oil in the Age of Steam,” Journal of Global History, 5 (March 2010), 75–94.
Nicholas, Tom, “The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880–1930,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), 57–82.
Owens, B. Robert, “Producing Parsons’ Reputation: Early Critiques of Talcott Parsons’ Social Theory and the Making of a Caricature,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Spring 2010), 165–88.
Pursell, Carroll, “Sim van der Ryn and the Architecture of the Appropriate Technology Movement,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (Dec. 2009), 17–30.
Smith, Linda C., and Carol Tenopir, “Martha E. Williams: Pioneer Information Scientist and Online Industry Guru,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 185–209.
Suisman, David, “Sound, Knowledge, and the ‘Immanence of Human Failure’: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano,” Social Text, 28 (Spring 2010), 13–34.
Williams, Robert V., “Madeline M. Henderson: From Chemical Information Science Pioneer to Architect of the New Information Science,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 167–84.
Korn, Randi L., “The Responses to Darwin in the Normal School Science and Educational Methods Curriculum: 1870–1930” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2009). Order No. DA3361082.
Manuel, Jeffrey Thomas, “Developing Resources: Industry, Policy, and Memory on the Post-industrial Iron Range” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366899.
McGahey, Christopher Shawn, “Harnessing Nature’s Timekeeper: A History of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Technological Community” (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009). Order No. DA3364249.
Millikan, Matthew, “Personality: The Science of Selfhood in Twentieth-Century America” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362059.
Park, Hyung Wook, “Refiguring Old Age: Shaping Scientific Research on Senescence, 1900–1960” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366913.
Schuller, Kyla C., “Sentimental Science and the Literary Cultures of Proto-eugenics” (University of California, San Diego, 2009). Order No. DA3356443.
Skamarakas, Constantine J., “Peter Kalm’s America: A Critical Analysis of His Journal” (Catholic University of America, 2009). Order No. DA3361341.
Syder, Andrew Derek, “‘Shaken Out of the Ruts of Ordinary Perception’: Vision, Culture, and Technology in the Psychedelic Sixties” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355305.
Winer, Daniel H., “The Development and Meaning of Firefighting, 1650–1850” (University of Delaware, 2009). Order No. DA3360270.
Hammonds, Evelynn M., and Rebecca M. Herzig, eds., The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. xvi, 380 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-262-08375-1. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-262-58275-9.)
Hunt, Bruce J., Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9358-2. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9359-9.)
Jacobs, Robert A., The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. xiv, 151 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-726-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-55849-727-6.)
Siddiqi, Asif A., The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857–1957. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 402 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-89760-0.)
Trimble, William F., Hero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2010. xvi, 270 pp. $47.95, isbn 978-1-59114-879-1.)
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