G Terry Sharrer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1236381 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Terry Sharrer |
| PRENOMES | G Terry |
| SOBRENOME | Sharrer |
| ASSINATURA | SHARRER G T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Safe Food
Reviewed by: Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Terry Sharrer (bio) Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. By Marion Nestle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+350. $27.50. How safe is the American food supply? Industry and government often assert that the United States sets the world standards for quantity, quality, safety, and price. Foodborne diseases account for five thousand deaths annual…
A Kind of Fate
A Kind of Fate
G. Terry Sharrer, a curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institution, has produced an excellent book that will be of interest to historians not only of Virginia but of other sections of the United States as well. The time span of two generations may seem arbitrary at first glance, but as the author develops his topic the chronological limits prove to be logical and appropriate. Sharrer divides the sixty years into two periods with a turn…
Rooted in America
Book Review| July 01 2000 Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables. David Scofield Wilson and Angus Kress Gillespie. G. Terry Sharrer G. Terry Sharrer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 714–715. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.3.714 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation…
An Anxious Pursuit
TECHNOLOGYAND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 Winterthur Museum in 1975, was not cited anywhere in this volume. I was equally surprised to find that ThomasJ. Schlereth’s landmark anthology Material Culture Studies in America (Nashville: American Asso ciation for State and Local History, 1982) was cited by only one contributor. On a concluding note, I should like to single out what I think to be the best of the volume’s essays. It is “Some Matters of Su…
An Anxious Pursuit
Years of Service
Journal Article 75 Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa. By Dorothy Schwieder. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. xiv, 270 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8138-0388-8.) Get access G. Terry Sharrer G. Terry Sharrer Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 759–760, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081338 Publ…
Robert Cole's World
694 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE prints), and boring and finishing (six prints). De Beer’s text elucidates the prints and provides an encyclopedic description of gunfounding at Woolwich under the Verbruggens. The drawings’ principal limitation as a source is the lack of an associated text, a deficiency made good here by the inclusion of two contemporary treatises on gunfounding, the first by David Emanuel Musly, a Swiss founder in Dutch se…
Robert Cole's World
The Business of Breeding
The Business of Breeding
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1117 compare Edison’s innovation strategies, such as his product diversifi cation in the 1890s, to later strategies developed at innovative companies in the forefront of industrial research in the 1920s. If the relationship between business strategy and laboratory is a strength of the book, the reader is nonetheless left wishing for a clearer sense of the fiscal state of Edison’s businesses (although the compl…
Bibliography of Publications by the Faculty, Staff, and Students of the University of California, 1876-1980, on Grapes, Wines, and Related Subjects . Maynard A. Amerine , Herman Phaff
Cotton
American Farmers
George Washington Carver
The Pittsburgh Meeting, October 18-21, 1978
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH MEETING, OCTOBER 18-21, 1978 Over 175 members registered for the twenty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 18-21, 1978. The meeting was notable not only for the quality but also for the quantity of the scholarly papers presented; the number of papers necessitated, for the first time in the society’s history, the holding of simultaneous…
The Depletion Myth
The Indigo Bonanza in South Carolina, 1740-90
Bonanza farmers have appeared periodically in American history. Whenever found, they farmed intensively, reaped great profits, and in a short time left the business as their golden vein gave out. Profits ended almost as suddenly as they had begun. Typically, bonanza farmers relied on a technology which exploited either land and/or labor in order to get maximum money returns. In the long run, bonanza farmers took more than they gave; but, in so do…
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The Indigo Bonanza in South Carolina, 1740-90
Bonanza farmers have appeared periodically in American history. Whenever found, they farmed intensively, reaped great profits, and in a short time left the business as their golden vein gave out. Profits ended almost as suddenly as they had begun. Typically, bonanza farmers relied on a technology which exploited either land and/or labor in order to get maximum money returns. In the long run, bonanza farmers took more than they gave; but, in so do…
The Depletion Myth
The Pittsburgh Meeting, October 18-21, 1978
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH MEETING, OCTOBER 18-21, 1978 Over 175 members registered for the twenty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 18-21, 1978. The meeting was notable not only for the quality but also for the quantity of the scholarly papers presented; the number of papers necessitated, for the first time in the society’s history, the holding of simultaneous…
George Washington Carver
American Farmers
Cotton
Bibliography of Publications by the Faculty, Staff, and Students of the University of California, 1876-1980, on Grapes, Wines, and Related Subjects . Maynard A. Amerine , Herman Phaff
The Business of Breeding
The Business of Breeding
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1117 compare Edison’s innovation strategies, such as his product diversifi cation in the 1890s, to later strategies developed at innovative companies in the forefront of industrial research in the 1920s. If the relationship between business strategy and laboratory is a strength of the book, the reader is nonetheless left wishing for a clearer sense of the fiscal state of Edison’s businesses (although the compl…
Robert Cole's World
694 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE prints), and boring and finishing (six prints). De Beer’s text elucidates the prints and provides an encyclopedic description of gunfounding at Woolwich under the Verbruggens. The drawings’ principal limitation as a source is the lack of an associated text, a deficiency made good here by the inclusion of two contemporary treatises on gunfounding, the first by David Emanuel Musly, a Swiss founder in Dutch se…
Robert Cole's World
Years of Service
Journal Article 75 Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa. By Dorothy Schwieder. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. xiv, 270 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8138-0388-8.) Get access G. Terry Sharrer G. Terry Sharrer Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 759–760, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081338 Publ…
An Anxious Pursuit
TECHNOLOGYAND CULTURE Book Reviews 177 Winterthur Museum in 1975, was not cited anywhere in this volume. I was equally surprised to find that ThomasJ. Schlereth’s landmark anthology Material Culture Studies in America (Nashville: American Asso ciation for State and Local History, 1982) was cited by only one contributor. On a concluding note, I should like to single out what I think to be the best of the volume’s essays. It is “Some Matters of Su…
An Anxious Pursuit
Rooted in America
Book Review| July 01 2000 Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables. David Scofield Wilson and Angus Kress Gillespie. G. Terry Sharrer G. Terry Sharrer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 714–715. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.3.714 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation…
A Kind of Fate
A Kind of Fate
G. Terry Sharrer, a curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institution, has produced an excellent book that will be of interest to historians not only of Virginia but of other sections of the United States as well. The time span of two generations may seem arbitrary at first glance, but as the author develops his topic the chronological limits prove to be logical and appropriate. Sharrer divides the sixty years into two periods with a turn…
Safe Food
Reviewed by: Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Terry Sharrer (bio) Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. By Marion Nestle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+350. $27.50. How safe is the American food supply? Industry and government often assert that the United States sets the world standards for quantity, quality, safety, and price. Foodborne diseases account for five thousand deaths annual…
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