Steven Biel

Biographic Data

ID1148271
NAMESteven Biel
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEBiel
SIGNATUREBIEL S
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War

    Open AccessSteven BielARTICLEJournal of American History2019Cited by: 1

    Datus C. Smith Jr., the former director of Princeton University Press and, starting in 1952, the chair of Franklin Book Programs, explained the programs' aims in the Middle East. Publishing books in translation and supporting the development of a publishing infrastructure would “give the people of the Arab states a realistic view of the world and their place in it,” “help rescue the Arab heritage from its present plight as the exclusive property …

  • Triangle Fire, Triangle: Remembering the Fire

    Steven Biel, BielARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    When the Titanic sank in April 1912, the labor and socialist press insisted that the disaster’s newsworthiness had been determined by the presence of the rich and famous on the doomed ship. The Railroad Trainman’s Journal noted that “a half million a year pay death or disability tribute to industry” while the capitalist press preferred to focus on a single tragedy rather than on the workplace conditions that “day after day, week after week, month…

  • American Disasters

    Open AccessSteven BielARTICLEDisaster Prevention and…2003

  • Titanic

    Steven Biel, James Cameron et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Titanic. Dir. by James Cameron. Paramount Pictures and Twentieth-Century Fox, 1998. 195 mins. Get access Steven Biel Steven Biel Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1177–1179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567378 Published: 01 December 1998

  • Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

    Karal Ann Marling, Steven BielARTICLEJournal of American History1997Cited by: 7

    Journal Article Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster. By Steven Biel. (New York: Norton, 1996. x, 300 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-393-03965-X.) 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 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 274–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952840 Published…

  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

    David Steigerwald, Steven BielARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1994

  • Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir

    Steven Biel, Milton Mayer et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1994

  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

    Howard Brick, Steven BielARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

    A new intellectual community came together in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, a community outside the universities, the professions and, in general, the established centers of intellectual life. A generation of young intellectuals was increasingly challenging both the genteel tradition and the growing division of intellectual labor. Adversarial and anti-professional, they exhibited a hostility to boundaries and specialization that compe…

  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945.

    Bruce Clayton, Steven BielARTICLEThe American Historical Review1993

  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

    Leonard Wilcox, Steven BielARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910–1943. By Steven Biel. (New York: New York University Press, 1992. xvi, 294 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-1188-X.) Get access Leonard Wilcox Leonard Wilcox University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1125–1126, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…

  • Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945

    Elaine Orr, Steven BielARTICLEAmerican Literature1993