Richard F Hirsh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 212195 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard F Hirsh |
| NOMBRES | Richard F |
| APELLIDO | Hirsh |
| FIRMA | HIRSH R F |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3040-882X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Democracy in Power
Charged
Reviewed by: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner Richard F. Hirsh (bio) Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future By James Morton Turner. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. Pp. 234. With floods, droughts, and wildfires wreaking social and economic havoc around the world, policy-makers have begun taking climate change—and efforts to mitigate it—more se…
Sociotechnical agendas
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Shedding New Light on Rural Electrification
Richard Hirsh, Shedding New Light on Rural Electrification: The Neglected Story of Successful Efforts to Power Up Farms in the 1920s and 1930s, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Summer 2018), pp. 296-327
The Wired Northwest
Reviewed by: The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s–1970s by Paul W. Hirt Richard Hirsh (bio) The Wired Northwest: The History of Electric Power, 1870s–1970s. By Paul W. Hirt. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. Pp. x+ 461. $49.95. Having a significant social impact in the last 125 years, the electric power system has attracted much scholarly attention. While The Wired Northwest (1983) does not offer novel insights into…
Welcoming Wind Turbines and the Pimby ("Please in My Backyard") Phenomenon
This article argues that the welcoming of wind turbines in midwestern farming communities, the so-called PIMBY ("Please in My Backyard") phenomenon, constitutes only the most recent expression of a historical process of farmers forming an ultramodern identity, one that still goes largely unappreciated by relatively backward city residents. We conclude that farmers undertook a two-step process to develop a modern identity that incorporated rural v…
History's contributions to energy research and policy
Wind Turbines and Invisible Technology
Local opposition to wind turbines stems from concerns about environmental and economic damage, as well as conflicts between rural and urban residents. This essay goes beyond these considerations to explore the often-unarticulated explanations for animosity toward this energy technology. Originally, it posits that opposition to visually obvious turbines arises from the successful history of an electric utility system that made its product largely …
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Reviewed by: How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Richard Hirsh (bio) How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Sarah S. Elkind. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xii+267. $45. California has a tradition of leading other states in developing novel environmental legislation. Pol…
Historians of Technology in the Real World
Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that studies of the past provide tangible benefits, academic historians usually remain reluctant to apply "lessons" from history to the realms of public and business policy. This article suggests reasons for that reluctance while also suggesting that historians of technology can make valuable contributions to the policy community. In particular, these professionals can employ tools and insights develope…
Rural Wonder
Book Review| October 01 2009 Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938–2007 Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938-2007. Jim McCarty. Richard F. Hirsh Richard F. Hirsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 549–550. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.4.549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Richard F. Hirsh; …
Assessing U.S. energy policy
told us that we need to use energy more ef1⁄2ciently and derive more of it from domestic sources.1 Since the energy crisis of 1973, U.S. presidents have declared the need to gain independence from unstable foreign energy suppliers and to do so with the same moral fortitude as if 1⁄2ghting a war. Some politicians have proposed massive government programs to achieve the goals of their energy policies; others have sought to unleash freemarket forces…
Power Loss
The electrical utility industry has undergone a revolution in the last thirty years. Before the 1970s utility companies enjoyed a “natural monopoly.” Recently, however, the advocates of a free-market system have challenged the old ways. Exploring this radical change is the purpose of Richard F. Hirsh's book. Power Loss unravels the mysteries of deregulation, a concept that took center stage with the California energy crisis of 2000–2001. In revie…
Eloge
Wolf Creek Station
Wolf Creek Station
394 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE national laboratories, and government/science relations, and is working on a biogra phy of Lloyd V. Berkner. Wolf Creek Station: Kansas Gas and Electric Company in the NuclearEra. By Craig Miner. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xii+393; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50. Wolf Creek Station tells the story of conflicting social groups and institutions during the planning and…
Momentum Shifts in the American Electric Utility System
L'A. decrit les changements du systeme electrique Americain et l'amenagement de programmes destines a augmenter l'efficacite de l'energie
Electrifying America
Electrifying America
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 595 Given the trend in current history books, I almost missed not getting bogged down and irritated by the incomprehensiblejargon of some other discipline. Happily, Platt writes clearly and the organiza tion carries the reader forward smoothly. The book is the product of painstaking research, vast reading, and careful thought. Students of city building, technological diffusion, business organization, and energ…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Journal Article Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. $37.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1412–1413, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078379 Published: 01 Marc…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
The Realities of Nuclear Power
Concorde and Dissent
The X-Ray Universe. Wallace Tucker , Riccardo Giacconi
Sociotechnical agendas
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
History's contributions to energy research and policy
Marginality and Innovation in Science
Sociologists and historians of science have frequently used the concept of the `marginal man' to describe those most likely to contribute major scientific innovations. An examination of X-ray astronomy during its formative years (1960-75) suggests that `marginal' scientists are no more likely than others to contribute innovations, a finding contrary to most other studies. Moreover, the concept of marginality is, in its present use, so ambiguous a…
Welcoming Wind Turbines and the Pimby ("Please in My Backyard") Phenomenon
This article argues that the welcoming of wind turbines in midwestern farming communities, the so-called PIMBY ("Please in My Backyard") phenomenon, constitutes only the most recent expression of a historical process of farmers forming an ultramodern identity, one that still goes largely unappreciated by relatively backward city residents. We conclude that farmers undertook a two-step process to develop a modern identity that incorporated rural v…
Historians of Technology in the Real World
Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that studies of the past provide tangible benefits, academic historians usually remain reluctant to apply "lessons" from history to the realms of public and business policy. This article suggests reasons for that reluctance while also suggesting that historians of technology can make valuable contributions to the policy community. In particular, these professionals can employ tools and insights develope…
Assessing U.S. energy policy
told us that we need to use energy more ef1⁄2ciently and derive more of it from domestic sources.1 Since the energy crisis of 1973, U.S. presidents have declared the need to gain independence from unstable foreign energy suppliers and to do so with the same moral fortitude as if 1⁄2ghting a war. Some politicians have proposed massive government programs to achieve the goals of their energy policies; others have sought to unleash freemarket forces…
Power Loss
The electrical utility industry has undergone a revolution in the last thirty years. Before the 1970s utility companies enjoyed a “natural monopoly.” Recently, however, the advocates of a free-market system have challenged the old ways. Exploring this radical change is the purpose of Richard F. Hirsh's book. Power Loss unravels the mysteries of deregulation, a concept that took center stage with the California energy crisis of 2000–2001. In revie…
Marginalia
Neither Simonton' nor Handberg2 dispute the core finding of our paper:3 each of the 98 X-ray astronomers in our sample (some innovators, others not) is 'marginal', when marginality is determined by empirical indicators used in previous studies. The hypothesis that marginality causes scientific innovation becomes trivially true, if only because the biography of any innovative scientist is almost certain to include at least one attribute that indic…
The Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae
Proseminar on Space History, 22 May 1981
Marginality and Innovation in Science
Sociologists and historians of science have frequently used the concept of the `marginal man' to describe those most likely to contribute major scientific innovations. An examination of X-ray astronomy during its formative years (1960-75) suggests that `marginal' scientists are no more likely than others to contribute innovations, a finding contrary to most other studies. Moreover, the concept of marginality is, in its present use, so ambiguous a…
Marginalia
Neither Simonton' nor Handberg2 dispute the core finding of our paper:3 each of the 98 X-ray astronomers in our sample (some innovators, others not) is 'marginal', when marginality is determined by empirical indicators used in previous studies. The hypothesis that marginality causes scientific innovation becomes trivially true, if only because the biography of any innovative scientist is almost certain to include at least one attribute that indic…
Energy and Transport
Energy and Transport analyzes the history of energy use and regulation from the nineteenth century through to the present, as represented by broad policy and consumption in the individual household. The relationship between energy and the evolution of energy policies, and the relationship between fuels and environmental pollution are historically reviewed. Thus these thirteen essays shed much historical light on current energy debates and root ou…
Glimpsing an Invisible Universe
Now in paperback, this book deals with the evolution of Xray astronomy during the initial phases of its development. The story commences in the late 1950S with the discovery of high-energy radiations from beyond the solar system, and is taken through to the point at which X-ray astronomers began exploring questions of broader interest in astronomy. In examining this early period, when scientists acquired fundamental data and the rudiments of theo…
Astronomy from Space
On Mars
The X-Ray Universe. Wallace Tucker , Riccardo Giacconi
Concorde and Dissent
The Realities of Nuclear Power
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Journal Article Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. $37.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1412–1413, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078379 Published: 01 Marc…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Electrifying America
Electrifying America
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 595 Given the trend in current history books, I almost missed not getting bogged down and irritated by the incomprehensiblejargon of some other discipline. Happily, Platt writes clearly and the organiza tion carries the reader forward smoothly. The book is the product of painstaking research, vast reading, and careful thought. Students of city building, technological diffusion, business organization, and energ…
Wolf Creek Station
Wolf Creek Station
394 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE national laboratories, and government/science relations, and is working on a biogra phy of Lloyd V. Berkner. Wolf Creek Station: Kansas Gas and Electric Company in the NuclearEra. By Craig Miner. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xii+393; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50. Wolf Creek Station tells the story of conflicting social groups and institutions during the planning and…
Momentum Shifts in the American Electric Utility System
L'A. decrit les changements du systeme electrique Americain et l'amenagement de programmes destines a augmenter l'efficacite de l'energie
Power Loss
The electrical utility industry has undergone a revolution in the last thirty years. Before the 1970s utility companies enjoyed a “natural monopoly.” Recently, however, the advocates of a free-market system have challenged the old ways. Exploring this radical change is the purpose of Richard F. Hirsh's book. Power Loss unravels the mysteries of deregulation, a concept that took center stage with the California energy crisis of 2000–2001. In revie…
Eloge
Assessing U.S. energy policy
told us that we need to use energy more ef1⁄2ciently and derive more of it from domestic sources.1 Since the energy crisis of 1973, U.S. presidents have declared the need to gain independence from unstable foreign energy suppliers and to do so with the same moral fortitude as if 1⁄2ghting a war. Some politicians have proposed massive government programs to achieve the goals of their energy policies; others have sought to unleash freemarket forces…
Rural Wonder
Book Review| October 01 2009 Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938–2007 Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938-2007. Jim McCarty. Richard F. Hirsh Richard F. Hirsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 549–550. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.4.549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Richard F. Hirsh; …
Historians of Technology in the Real World
Despite widespread acceptance of the notion that studies of the past provide tangible benefits, academic historians usually remain reluctant to apply "lessons" from history to the realms of public and business policy. This article suggests reasons for that reluctance while also suggesting that historians of technology can make valuable contributions to the policy community. In particular, these professionals can employ tools and insights develope…
How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy
Reviewed by: How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Richard Hirsh (bio) How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Sarah S. Elkind. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xii+267. $45. California has a tradition of leading other states in developing novel environmental legislation. Pol…
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