Robert W Rydell

Biographic Data

ID113570
NAMERobert W Rydell
GIVEN NAMESRobert W
FAMILY NAMERydell
SIGNATURERYDELL R W
AFFILIATIONSMontana State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives. By Janne Lahti

    Open AccessRobert W RydellARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2021

    The transnational turn in western American studies has been moving with quickening speed over the past decade. Lahti’s short book, written with the keen eye of a European scholar sensitive to ongoing American influences in his own life, offers a superb synopsis of this scholarship while inviting scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to contemplate new directions for its future course. Writing about historiography is not for the faint …

  • Transnational Frontiers. The American West in France

    Robert W RydellARTICLEThe International History Review2019Cited by: 1

    Beginning in 1887 with his appearance as the featured attraction at London’s American Exhibition, William Cody, already known as Buffalo Bill, made his Wild West show (Cody, rarely referred to it a

  • Exhibition architecture in American world fairs

    Robert W RydellCHAPTER2018

  • Putting the “Ideals of America” Into Practice in the Philippines

    Open AccessRobert W RydellARTICLEDiplomatic History2018

    In 1902, The Atlantic Monthly published a speech that Woodrow Wilson, newly appointed president of Princeton University, had recently given on the 125th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton. In “The Ideals of America,” Wilson argued that just as the Battle of Trenton prepared the way for American independence, so the Battle of Manila in 1898 had opened the way for Philippine independence—but with this difference: Filipinos, he argued, were not ye…

  • Monica Rico. Nature's Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West

    Robert W RydellARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Monica Rico. Nature's Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West. Get access Monica Rico. Nature's Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West. (The Lamar Series in Western History.) New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2013. Pp. xi, 287. $40.00. Robert W. Rydell Robert W. Rydell Montana State University [email protected] Search for other works by this a…

  • Soundtracks of Empire: The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley

    Open AccessRobert W RydellARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2012Cited by: 1

    America’s War with Spain inspired Tin Pan Alley music publishers to generate popular songs to accompany America’s military victories and subsequent occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. By expanding the genre of the so-called “coon song” to include the people of these islands, composers and publishers contributed to the domestication of empire in fin-de-siècle America

  • Envisioning the Nation: The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

    Robert W RydellARTICLEJournal of American History2012

  • Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It (review)

    Robert W RydellARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Reviewed by: Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It Robert W. Rydell (bio) Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun that Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. By Julia Keller. New York: Viking, 2008. Pp. 294. $25.95. This is an exuberantly written book. Journalist and cultural critic Julia Keller brings Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, to li…

  • The Proximity of the Past: Eugenics in American Culture

    Open AccessRobert W RydellARTICLEModern Intellectual History2010References: 5

    In 1935, as the Nazis’ state-of-the art eugenics exhibition from the Deutsches Hygiene Museum was concluding its American tour, a decision had to be made about whether to return the displays to Germany or to house them in an American museum. After the American Academy of Medicine decided against the display because of its political implications, the director of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Carlos Cummings, himself a physician, offered his insti…

  • Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

    Robert W Rydell, Rob KroesARTICLEComparative American Studies An…2006Cited by: 2

  • Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

    Robert W Rydell, Rob KroesBOOKBuffalo Bill in Bologna2005

  • Grand Crossings: The Life and Work of Alexander Saxton

    Robert W RydellARTICLEPacific Historical Review2004References: 1

    In his Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference, geographer David Harvey states that "we have much to learn from our predecessors, particularly those who worked in the latter part of the last century, for their political and intellectual courage cannot be doubted." My intellectual biography of Alexander Saxton follows Harvey's lead and situates Saxton's work as a writer, political activist, and historian in the tradition of humane radicals w…

  • "All the World Is Here!" The Black Presence at White City

    Robert W Rydell, Christopher Robert ReedARTICLEThe History Teacher2003

  • Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia (review)

    Robert W RydellARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    In 1876, the United States hosted an exhibition in Philadelphia celebrating the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. Intended to promote the arts, sciences, and American industry, the Centennial Exhibition was also a nation-building enterprise that sought to give form and substance to a new sense of national identity and unity after America's devastating Civil War. Yet, despite its importance for reconstructing American society and cult…

  • The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment

    Robert W Rydell, J W T YoungsARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment. By J. William T. Youngs. (Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 1996. xiv, 627 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-910055-33-5.) Get access Robert W. Rydell Robert W. Rydell Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 302–3…

  • Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory. (Osiris, 2nd Series, 14) . Pnina G. Abir-Am , Clark A. Elliott

    Robert W RydellARTICLEIsis2001

  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon . W. J. T. Mitchell

    Robert W RydellARTICLEIsis2000

  • Science, Values, and the American West . Stephen Tchudi

    Robert W RydellARTICLEIsis1999

  • Exhibiting Electricity . K. G. Beauchamp

    Robert W RydellARTICLEIsis1998

  • Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life . Christopher P. Toumey

    Robert W RydellARTICLEIsis1997

  • World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions

    John C Rumm, Robert W RydellARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

  • World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions

    Stephen Eskilson, Stephen J Eskilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions. By Robert W. Rydell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-226-73236-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-73237-1.) Get access Stephen J. Eskilson Stephen J. Eskilson Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996,…

  • Within the U. S. Orbit: Small National Cultures vis-a-vis the United States

    Jonas Björk, Rob Kroes et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Within the US. Orbit: Small National Cultures vis-à-vis the United States. Ed. by Rob Kroes. Amsterdam: VU University Press and Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe. Ed. by Rob Kroes, Robert W. Rydell, and Doeko F. J. Bosscher. Amsterdam: VU University Press Get access Jonas Bjork Jonas Bjork Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…

  • Fair Representations: World's Fairs and the Modern World

    Karal Ann Marling, Robert W Rydell et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 10

    Journal Article Fair Representations: World's Fairs and the Modern World. Ed. by Robert W. Rydell and Nancy Gwinn. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994. vi, 253 pp. Paper, ISBN 90-5383-282-3.) Get access Karal Ann Marling Karal Ann Marling University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 270–271, https://doi.o…

  • Our Place in the West: Places, Pasts, and Images of the Yellowstone Valley, 1880-1940

    Robert W RydellARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    “Our Place in the West: Places, Pasts, and Images of the Yellowstone Valley, 1880–1940.” Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave., Billings, MT 59101 Get access Robert W. Rydell Robert W. Rydell Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1158–1161, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945125 Published: 01 December 1…