Peter Soppelsa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1058482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Soppelsa |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Soppelsa |
| FIRMA | SOPPELSA P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Mistral
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue demonstrates how investigating topics related to the histories of science and technology illuminates themes of enduring importance in French and Francophone historical study—from policing female bodies to expressing patriotic anxieties. By documenting the circulation of people, ideas, information, artifacts, and technology within and beyond the Hexagon, these six articles help rethink French science and technology since the 170…
Sulphuric Utopias
This ambitious history is a pleasure to think with. At its center is the Clayton machine or apparatus, the world’s leading maritime fumigation system in the early 1900s, patented in 1899 by Thomas Adam Clayton, a Scottish cotton farmer living in Louisiana. Inside the machine, a small furnace burned sulfur and blew the resulting sulfur dioxide gas (SO2) through pipes and hoses into enclosed spaces for pressurized fumigation. Clayton’s machine set …
A ndrea E. D uffy . Nomad’s Land
Andrea E. Duffy’s Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World combines thorough research, disciplined argument, tidy and elegant structure, and accessible, clearly written prose. It joins environmental histories of forestry in France and its empire by Diana Davis, Caroline Ford, Kieko Matteson, and Tamara Whited, and it was a co-winner of the Forest History Society’s 2020 Charles A. Weye…
Universal Expositions
This essay comments on the articles collected for this special issue about international expositions in France. It finds four major themes for new directions in exposition studies. First is the long literary and cultural shadow of expositions, or the shifting timescales that gave these temporary events lasting legacies. Second are the (often unintended) concrete consequences and costs for host cities of expositions understood as mega-events and m…
Passing the Baton
Passing the Baton Suzanne Moon (bio), Peter Soppelsa (bio), and Hunter Heyck (bio) This double issue of Technology and Culture is the last that we will produce at the University of Oklahoma as we pass responsibility with thanks and best wishes to Ruth Oldenziel and the new editorial team at Eindhoven University of Technology. In the past, the Editor-in-Chief has authored these "Passing the Baton" essays in T&C. This time, we diverge slightly from…
Origins of the Flyswatter
Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris
Reviving Animals as Technology
Soppelsa reviews Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America by Ann Norton Greene
Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition and the Politics of Urban Disaster
National and international critics of Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition claimed that it was a disaster on various levels. That year, in addition to two walkway collapses that killed thirteen people, Paris experienced numerous construction and transportation accidents; electrical failures and fires; a deadly heat wave followed by a water shortage, near sewer failure, and “great stink”; and typhoid and smallpox outbreaks that killed more than a tho…
Santos-Dumont's Blimp Passes the Eiffel Tower
The photograph on this issue's cover is drawn from Gustav Eiffel's 1902 book, La Tour Eiffel en 1900. This book documented the tower's continuing development after its 1889 debut, including its importance for scientific experiments in wireless transmission, meteorology, long-range photography, and aviation. Eiffel addressed the book to the tower's critics, who claimed that its relevance and grandeur had faded since 1889. The tower was the clou (m…
Water and Power in Modern France
Visualizing viaducts in 1880s Paris
Intersections
The essay introduces this issue of Technology and Culture, which highlights the intersections of technology, mobility, and geography. While recent scholarship on mobilities foregrounds mobile objects, people, and ideas, this issue's articles link mobility to geography, illustrating the spaces that shape or are created by changing sociotechnical practices of movement. Here, the where of technology's social construction matters as much as its who. …
Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition and the Politics of Urban Disaster
National and international critics of Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition claimed that it was a disaster on various levels. That year, in addition to two walkway collapses that killed thirteen people, Paris experienced numerous construction and transportation accidents; electrical failures and fires; a deadly heat wave followed by a water shortage, near sewer failure, and “great stink”; and typhoid and smallpox outbreaks that killed more than a tho…
Visualizing viaducts in 1880s Paris
Intersections
The essay introduces this issue of Technology and Culture, which highlights the intersections of technology, mobility, and geography. While recent scholarship on mobilities foregrounds mobile objects, people, and ideas, this issue's articles link mobility to geography, illustrating the spaces that shape or are created by changing sociotechnical practices of movement. Here, the where of technology's social construction matters as much as its who. …
Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition and the Politics of Urban Disaster
National and international critics of Paris’s 1900 Universal Exposition claimed that it was a disaster on various levels. That year, in addition to two walkway collapses that killed thirteen people, Paris experienced numerous construction and transportation accidents; electrical failures and fires; a deadly heat wave followed by a water shortage, near sewer failure, and “great stink”; and typhoid and smallpox outbreaks that killed more than a tho…
Santos-Dumont's Blimp Passes the Eiffel Tower
The photograph on this issue's cover is drawn from Gustav Eiffel's 1902 book, La Tour Eiffel en 1900. This book documented the tower's continuing development after its 1889 debut, including its importance for scientific experiments in wireless transmission, meteorology, long-range photography, and aviation. Eiffel addressed the book to the tower's critics, who claimed that its relevance and grandeur had faded since 1889. The tower was the clou (m…
Water and Power in Modern France
Reviving Animals as Technology
Soppelsa reviews Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America by Ann Norton Greene
Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris
Origins of the Flyswatter
Universal Expositions
This essay comments on the articles collected for this special issue about international expositions in France. It finds four major themes for new directions in exposition studies. First is the long literary and cultural shadow of expositions, or the shifting timescales that gave these temporary events lasting legacies. Second are the (often unintended) concrete consequences and costs for host cities of expositions understood as mega-events and m…
Passing the Baton
Passing the Baton Suzanne Moon (bio), Peter Soppelsa (bio), and Hunter Heyck (bio) This double issue of Technology and Culture is the last that we will produce at the University of Oklahoma as we pass responsibility with thanks and best wishes to Ruth Oldenziel and the new editorial team at Eindhoven University of Technology. In the past, the Editor-in-Chief has authored these "Passing the Baton" essays in T&C. This time, we diverge slightly from…
A ndrea E. D uffy . Nomad’s Land
Andrea E. Duffy’s Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World combines thorough research, disciplined argument, tidy and elegant structure, and accessible, clearly written prose. It joins environmental histories of forestry in France and its empire by Diana Davis, Caroline Ford, Kieko Matteson, and Tamara Whited, and it was a co-winner of the Forest History Society’s 2020 Charles A. Weye…
Sulphuric Utopias
This ambitious history is a pleasure to think with. At its center is the Clayton machine or apparatus, the world’s leading maritime fumigation system in the early 1900s, patented in 1899 by Thomas Adam Clayton, a Scottish cotton farmer living in Louisiana. Inside the machine, a small furnace burned sulfur and blew the resulting sulfur dioxide gas (SO2) through pipes and hoses into enclosed spaces for pressurized fumigation. Clayton’s machine set …
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue demonstrates how investigating topics related to the histories of science and technology illuminates themes of enduring importance in French and Francophone historical study—from policing female bodies to expressing patriotic anxieties. By documenting the circulation of people, ideas, information, artifacts, and technology within and beyond the Hexagon, these six articles help rethink French science and technology since the 170…
The Mistral
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