Theodore Steinberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3945323 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Theodore Steinberg |
| NOMBRES | Theodore |
| APELLIDO | Steinberg |
| FIRMA | STEINBERG T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sidney’s Poetics
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Big Is Ugly
"Just Say No to H2O" sounds like the kind of advice one gives to someone suffering from polydipsia, a horrible psychiatric disorder that causes its victims to drink water from any available source—the ocean, the toilet—at an uncontrollable rate. In fact, as Robert Glennon points out in Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002), the slogan is part of a campaign by the Coca-Cola …
Lake Erie Rehabilitated
Can algae make history? Of course. But only when the algae bloom in question occurs in a body of water the size of Lake Erie, transforming it into a literal dead sea, do the imaginations of the historically minded become piqued
Florida's Hurricane History
Enlarging America
Book Review| March 01 2000 Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars,1930-1990 By Susanne Klingenstein. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 1998. xxxiv,492 pp. $34.95. Theodore L. Steinberg Theodore L. Steinberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 217–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Perm…
Do-It-YourseIf Deathscape
The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature
What Is a Natural Disaster
Steinberg queries the distinction between natural and human-engineered disasters. Using evidence of floods caused by artificial dams, rain created by cloud seeding, and hurricanes affected by weather control projects, the author suggests that humans are altering the weather and unself-consciously contributing to natural disasters such as floods and droughts. This essay traces the history of natural disasters to underline the changing attitudes to…
Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 437 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier. By Peter A. Coates. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1991. Pp. 447; illustra tions, notes, bibliography, index. $57.50. There are pipes and then there are pipes. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) must rank as one of the most monumental pipes in the history of the world. Fr…
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
Nature Incorporated
Nature Incorporated
Nature Incorporated
God's Terminus
Journal Article God's Terminus: Boundaries, Nature, and Property on the Michigan Shore Get access Theodore Steinberg Theodore Steinberg Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of History *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 65–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/845769 Publishe…
That World's Fair Feeling
had this to say: Nobody can visit Boulder Dam without getting that World's Fair feeling. It is certainly one of the world's wonders, that sweeping cliff of concrete, those impetuous elevators, the labyrinth of tunnels, the huge power stations. Everything about the dam is marked by the immense smooth efficient beauty that seems peculiarly American.2 Hoover Dam is indeed a wonder. It took five years to build, contains over 4.5 million cubic yards o…
Nature Incorporated
Journal Article Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. By Theodore Steinberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi + 284 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-521-39215-2.) Get access Patrick M. Malone Patrick M. Malone Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1164–1165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080855 Pu…
Ecological Revolutions
398 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. By Carolyn Merchant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xv+ 379; illustrations, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliog raphy, index. $34.95 (cloth); $13.95 (paper). Environmental history is a new field of study that merits the attention of scholars interested in science and technology. A number of talented people are work…
Ecological Revolutions
Americans and Their Forests
List of illustrations List of tables Preface A note on tree, lumber, and plant association names Abbrevaitions Part I. The Forest Before 1600: 1. The forest in American life 2. The forest and the Indian Part II. Change in the Forest, 1600-1859: 3. The forest and pioneer life, 1600-1810 4. Two centuries of change: the commercial uses of the forest 5. The quickening pace: agricultural clearing, 1810-1860 6. The quickening pace: the industrial impac…
Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement by Tim Palmer
technology and culture Book Reviews 973 us very far toward understanding the mixed blessings of technology anywhere. Donald Worster Dr. Worster is Meyerhoff Professor of American Environmental Studies and teaches courses on the history of the environment and the West at Brandeis University. His most recent book is Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985). Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movemen…
Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
Do-It-YourseIf Deathscape
God's Terminus
Journal Article God's Terminus: Boundaries, Nature, and Property on the Michigan Shore Get access Theodore Steinberg Theodore Steinberg Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of History *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 65–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/845769 Publishe…
Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement by Tim Palmer
technology and culture Book Reviews 973 us very far toward understanding the mixed blessings of technology anywhere. Donald Worster Dr. Worster is Meyerhoff Professor of American Environmental Studies and teaches courses on the history of the environment and the West at Brandeis University. His most recent book is Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Pantheon, 1985). Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movemen…
Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
Ecological Revolutions
398 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. By Carolyn Merchant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xv+ 379; illustrations, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliog raphy, index. $34.95 (cloth); $13.95 (paper). Environmental history is a new field of study that merits the attention of scholars interested in science and technology. A number of talented people are work…
Ecological Revolutions
Americans and Their Forests
List of illustrations List of tables Preface A note on tree, lumber, and plant association names Abbrevaitions Part I. The Forest Before 1600: 1. The forest in American life 2. The forest and the Indian Part II. Change in the Forest, 1600-1859: 3. The forest and pioneer life, 1600-1810 4. Two centuries of change: the commercial uses of the forest 5. The quickening pace: agricultural clearing, 1810-1860 6. The quickening pace: the industrial impac…
Nature Incorporated
Journal Article Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. By Theodore Steinberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi + 284 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-521-39215-2.) Get access Patrick M. Malone Patrick M. Malone Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1164–1165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080855 Pu…
Nature Incorporated
Nature Incorporated
Nature Incorporated
God's Terminus
Journal Article God's Terminus: Boundaries, Nature, and Property on the Michigan Shore Get access Theodore Steinberg Theodore Steinberg Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of History *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 65–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/845769 Publishe…
That World's Fair Feeling
had this to say: Nobody can visit Boulder Dam without getting that World's Fair feeling. It is certainly one of the world's wonders, that sweeping cliff of concrete, those impetuous elevators, the labyrinth of tunnels, the huge power stations. Everything about the dam is marked by the immense smooth efficient beauty that seems peculiarly American.2 Hoover Dam is indeed a wonder. It took five years to build, contains over 4.5 million cubic yards o…
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 437 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier. By Peter A. Coates. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1991. Pp. 447; illustra tions, notes, bibliography, index. $57.50. There are pipes and then there are pipes. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) must rank as one of the most monumental pipes in the history of the world. Fr…
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy
What Is a Natural Disaster
Steinberg queries the distinction between natural and human-engineered disasters. Using evidence of floods caused by artificial dams, rain created by cloud seeding, and hurricanes affected by weather control projects, the author suggests that humans are altering the weather and unself-consciously contributing to natural disasters such as floods and droughts. This essay traces the history of natural disasters to underline the changing attitudes to…
Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature
Do-It-YourseIf Deathscape
The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature
Florida's Hurricane History
Enlarging America
Book Review| March 01 2000 Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars,1930-1990 By Susanne Klingenstein. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 1998. xxxiv,492 pp. $34.95. Theodore L. Steinberg Theodore L. Steinberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 217–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-217 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Perm…
Lake Erie Rehabilitated
Can algae make history? Of course. But only when the algae bloom in question occurs in a body of water the size of Lake Erie, transforming it into a literal dead sea, do the imaginations of the historically minded become piqued
Big Is Ugly
"Just Say No to H2O" sounds like the kind of advice one gives to someone suffering from polydipsia, a horrible psychiatric disorder that causes its victims to drink water from any available source—the ocean, the toilet—at an uncontrollable rate. In fact, as Robert Glennon points out in Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002), the slogan is part of a campaign by the Coca-Cola …
Sidney’s Poetics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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