Gregg Mitman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1022929 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gregg Mitman |
| PRENOMES | Gregg |
| SOBRENOME | Mitman |
| ASSINATURA | MITMAN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Visual Tailings
On Extraction, Care, and Interspecies Alliances
Hotspots, spillovers and the shifting geopolitics of zoonotic emerging infectious diseases
How might attention to zoonotic emerging diseases be more equitably distributed across the globe? It is a provocative and timely question asked by Lisa Onaga in her essay 'Reprogramming the Story', particularly in light of the violent, racist attacks experienced by Asian people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Spillover origin stories can too readily stigmatise people and regions, placing blame for outbreaks on foreign bodies-human and non-human-as …
Empire of Rubber
Reflections
The Documentary Impulse
This article has two interconnected goals. It is, first of all, a review of the film The Land Beneath Our Feet, an exemplary documentary that combines the history of technology, science and technology studies, and environmental history in its exploration of the social, cultural, and natural consequences of the rubber industry's expansion in Liberia. The essay's larger purpose, however, is to explore the powerful role documentary film-making pract…
Forgotten Paths of Empire
This essay follows the journey of a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia and also the more recent journey of its remains—nearly six hundred photographs and more than two hours of motion picture footage. My goal is to make visible the forgotten paths of empire that led to widespread economic, environmental, and cultural change in the West African republic of Liberia. In tracing the transnational flows of capital, knowledge, commodities, and microbes…
Living in a Material World
As delegates gathered in Tampa, Florida, for the 2012 Republican National Convention, the uncertain threat of Tropical Storm Isaac threw a monkey wrench into the carefully choreographed events and eventually cut the convention short by one day. The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wondered whether God had “forsaken the Republican Party,” but when Isaac shifted course, veering west, others affirmed that the grace of God was indeed on the Rep…
Wired Wilderness
Reviewed by: Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife Gregg Mitman (bio) Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife. By Etienne Benson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. x+252. $55. In the early 1960s, at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, a biological field station for the University of Minnesota, a radio-tracking system kept watch on denizens of the wild…
Latex and Blood
During the twentieth century the United States developed a unique kind of empire, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets, corporate influence, and cultural exchange. The political and economic ties between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, cemented in the 1920s when the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company successfully established a major rubber plantation in the…
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Counterculture Green
Journal Article Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism Get access Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. By Kirk Andrew G.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiii + 303 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Gregg Mitman Gregg Mitman University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Allergy
Reviewed by: Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady Gregg Mitman Mark Jackson . Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 288 pp. Ill. $39.95 (1-86189-271-3). How did allergy, a seemingly obscure condition that emerged in the early twentieth century at the laboratory bench and the patient's bedside, become symptomatic of, and indeed synonymous with, the multitude of risks and exposures that define modern life in the …
Special Forum
The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
Almost fifty years ago, Samuel Hays argued in Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (1959) that a wave of federal legislation and reform passed during the Progressive Era to conserve the nation's forests, fields, and streams was not the result of a democratic impulse to protect the people's interests. Instead, Hays viewed the conservation movement as symptomatic of a growing faith in, and reliance on, the ability of scientific experts to rati…
Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet
The Death of Nature offered a promising bridge between the history of ecological thought, a subject of the history of science, and the history of environmental change, the purview of environmental history. Such bridging was an ambitious goal, hindered, as this essay argues, by the histories and politics of academic disciplines and their publics. Directions in both the history of science and environmental history, as well as the current political …
In Search of Health
Introduction
Geographies of Hope
Across the western landscape of the United States, health was a natural resource, mined and sold by late-nineteenth and twentieth-century town boosters and physicians to those afflicted with chronic pulmonary illnesses such as tuberculosis and asthma. Regional economies of health were built upon climate and sunshine. After the Second World War, children, rather than nature, increasingly became a vital resource upon which institutions such as Denv…
Chemicals in the Field - Edmund Russell, War and Nature
Hay Fever Holiday
By the 1880s hay fever (also called June Cold, Rose Cold, hay asthma, hay cold, or autumnal catarrh) had become the pride of America's leisure class. In mid-August each year, thousands of sufferers fled to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, to the Adirondacks in upper New York State, to the shores of the Great Lakes, or to the Colorado plateau, hoping to escape the dreaded seasonal symptoms of watery eyes, flowing nose, sneezing fits, and atta…
Natural history and the clinic
From miasma to asthma
Reel Nature
Like so much of post–World War II American pop culture, nature and wilderness on film was not quite what it seemed to millions of baby boom families in their suburban living rooms. Gregg Mitman, assistant professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Oklahoma, suggests in this thought-provoking study of the art and artifice of nature films that contemporary beliefs about environmental policy had their origins in a centur…
Life in the ruins
In Search of Health
Introduction
Latex and Blood
During the twentieth century the United States developed a unique kind of empire, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets, corporate influence, and cultural exchange. The political and economic ties between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, cemented in the 1920s when the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company successfully established a major rubber plantation in the…
The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
Almost fifty years ago, Samuel Hays argued in Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (1959) that a wave of federal legislation and reform passed during the Progressive Era to conserve the nation's forests, fields, and streams was not the result of a democratic impulse to protect the people's interests. Instead, Hays viewed the conservation movement as symptomatic of a growing faith in, and reliance on, the ability of scientific experts to rati…
Forgotten Paths of Empire
This essay follows the journey of a 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia and also the more recent journey of its remains—nearly six hundred photographs and more than two hours of motion picture footage. My goal is to make visible the forgotten paths of empire that led to widespread economic, environmental, and cultural change in the West African republic of Liberia. In tracing the transnational flows of capital, knowledge, commodities, and microbes…
Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet
The Death of Nature offered a promising bridge between the history of ecological thought, a subject of the history of science, and the history of environmental change, the purview of environmental history. Such bridging was an ambitious goal, hindered, as this essay argues, by the histories and politics of academic disciplines and their publics. Directions in both the history of science and environmental history, as well as the current political …
When Nature Is the Zoo
From miasma to asthma
Living in a Material World
As delegates gathered in Tampa, Florida, for the 2012 Republican National Convention, the uncertain threat of Tropical Storm Isaac threw a monkey wrench into the carefully choreographed events and eventually cut the convention short by one day. The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wondered whether God had “forsaken the Republican Party,” but when Isaac shifted course, veering west, others affirmed that the grace of God was indeed on the Rep…
Reflections
The State of Nature
Journal Article The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950. By Gregg Mitman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xiv, 290 pp. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-53236-4. Paper, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-53237-2.) Get access Elazar Barkan Elazar Barkan Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue …
Special Forum
Geographies of Hope
Across the western landscape of the United States, health was a natural resource, mined and sold by late-nineteenth and twentieth-century town boosters and physicians to those afflicted with chronic pulmonary illnesses such as tuberculosis and asthma. Regional economies of health were built upon climate and sunshine. After the Second World War, children, rather than nature, increasingly became a vital resource upon which institutions such as Denv…
Natural history and the clinic
Evolution as Gospel
Science as Politics. Les Levidow
Evolution as Gospel
Dominance, leadership, and aggression
During the decade surrounding the Second World War, an extensive literature on the biological and psychological basis of aggression surfaced in America, a literature that in general emphasized the significance of learning and environment in the origins of aggressive behavior. Focusing on the animal behavior research of Warder Clyde Allee and John Paul Scott, this paper examines the complex interplay among conceptual, institutional, and societal f…
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences . Mirko D. Grmek , Bernandino Fantini
Primate Visions
The Shaping of Environmentalism in America . Victor B. Scheffer
Cinematic Nature
An Entangled Bank
Political Context of Scientific Thought
Victorians developed two lines of response to challenges to Christianity and traditional authority by the new critical spirit and naturalism of their era. Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer set out one line, which had important antecedents in Hobbesian thought. These Darwinians found values and laws in nature to guide man's social conduct. Despite Darwin's suggestion that evolution could be interpreted in terms of progress toward an altruistic, c…
The State of Nature
Journal Article The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950. By Gregg Mitman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xiv, 290 pp. Cloth, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-53236-4. Paper, $58.00, ISBN 0-226-53237-2.) Get access Elazar Barkan Elazar Barkan Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue …
Picturing Nature
Nature's Economy
When Nature Is the Zoo
Reel Nature
Like so much of post–World War II American pop culture, nature and wilderness on film was not quite what it seemed to millions of baby boom families in their suburban living rooms. Gregg Mitman, assistant professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Oklahoma, suggests in this thought-provoking study of the art and artifice of nature films that contemporary beliefs about environmental policy had their origins in a centur…
Chemicals in the Field - Edmund Russell, War and Nature
Hay Fever Holiday
By the 1880s hay fever (also called June Cold, Rose Cold, hay asthma, hay cold, or autumnal catarrh) had become the pride of America's leisure class. In mid-August each year, thousands of sufferers fled to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, to the Adirondacks in upper New York State, to the shores of the Great Lakes, or to the Colorado plateau, hoping to escape the dreaded seasonal symptoms of watery eyes, flowing nose, sneezing fits, and atta…
Natural history and the clinic
From miasma to asthma
Introduction
Geographies of Hope
Across the western landscape of the United States, health was a natural resource, mined and sold by late-nineteenth and twentieth-century town boosters and physicians to those afflicted with chronic pulmonary illnesses such as tuberculosis and asthma. Regional economies of health were built upon climate and sunshine. After the Second World War, children, rather than nature, increasingly became a vital resource upon which institutions such as Denv…
In Search of Health
The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
Almost fifty years ago, Samuel Hays argued in Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (1959) that a wave of federal legislation and reform passed during the Progressive Era to conserve the nation's forests, fields, and streams was not the result of a democratic impulse to protect the people's interests. Instead, Hays viewed the conservation movement as symptomatic of a growing faith in, and reliance on, the ability of scientific experts to rati…
Where Ecology, Nature, and Politics Meet
The Death of Nature offered a promising bridge between the history of ecological thought, a subject of the history of science, and the history of environmental change, the purview of environmental history. Such bridging was an ambitious goal, hindered, as this essay argues, by the histories and politics of academic disciplines and their publics. Directions in both the history of science and environmental history, as well as the current political …
Special Forum
Allergy
Reviewed by: Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady Gregg Mitman Mark Jackson . Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 288 pp. Ill. $39.95 (1-86189-271-3). How did allergy, a seemingly obscure condition that emerged in the early twentieth century at the laboratory bench and the patient's bedside, become symptomatic of, and indeed synonymous with, the multitude of risks and exposures that define modern life in the …
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