Margaret Vining
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Vining |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Vining |
| SIGNATURE | VINING M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does War Belong in Museums
In 2011, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria's oldest and second largest museum complex, celebrated its 200th anniversary.In preparation of this special event, we decided to dedicate each month of the year 2011 to one of our museums.Thus the focus in September 2011 was on the Landeszeughaus, the Styrian Armoury, considered to be the world's largest historic armoury and one of the most important monuments of Styrian history.Built by the Styrian …
A companion to women's military history
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (review)
Reviewed by: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age Margaret Vining (bio) Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. By Kurt W. Beyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xii+389. $27.95. Kurt Beyer is an information scientist with a Ph.D. from Berkeley. He taught at the U.S. Naval Academy before founding his own digital service company. His expertise is evident in a book that primarily offers a fine survey of comput…
American Military Technology
Grace Hopper
Reviewed by: Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea Margaret Vining (bio) Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea. By Kathleen Broome Williams. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+240. $32.95. Grace Murray Hopper had taught mathematics at Vassar and won her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale when World War II changed everything. In 1944, aged thirty-seven, she joined the navy. As a newly minted lieutenant (jg) in the navy's WAVES (Wo…
Improbable Warriors
The U.S. Navy was first to officially sanction the presence of nonmedical women in the ranks of the armed forces when it recruited a few thousand women volunteers for enlisted yeoman rank—the now well-known Yeoman (F)—during World War I. Less familiar are the many thousands of patriotic women in both secular and religious organizations who mobilized for war work during World War I. Educated, largely middle- and upper-class women (wearing versions…
From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform
In the crisis of the First World War, the vast expansion of military control over civil society included women's work. Women contributed not only directly to war production but also to maintaining the entire socioeconomic structure in jobs such as trolley conductor or farm worker. Hundreds and thousands of women volunteered for war work in social and relief organisations. If their work under wartime conditions did not differ radically from the ce…
From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform
In the crisis of the First World War, the vast expansion of military control over civil society included women's work. Women contributed not only directly to war production but also to maintaining the entire socioeconomic structure in jobs such as trolley conductor or farm worker. Hundreds and thousands of women volunteered for war work in social and relief organisations. If their work under wartime conditions did not differ radically from the ce…
Does War Belong in Museums
In 2011, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria's oldest and second largest museum complex, celebrated its 200th anniversary.In preparation of this special event, we decided to dedicate each month of the year 2011 to one of our museums.Thus the focus in September 2011 was on the Landeszeughaus, the Styrian Armoury, considered to be the world's largest historic armoury and one of the most important monuments of Styrian history.Built by the Styrian …
From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform
In the crisis of the First World War, the vast expansion of military control over civil society included women's work. Women contributed not only directly to war production but also to maintaining the entire socioeconomic structure in jobs such as trolley conductor or farm worker. Hundreds and thousands of women volunteered for war work in social and relief organisations. If their work under wartime conditions did not differ radically from the ce…
Improbable Warriors
The U.S. Navy was first to officially sanction the presence of nonmedical women in the ranks of the armed forces when it recruited a few thousand women volunteers for enlisted yeoman rank—the now well-known Yeoman (F)—during World War I. Less familiar are the many thousands of patriotic women in both secular and religious organizations who mobilized for war work during World War I. Educated, largely middle- and upper-class women (wearing versions…
Grace Hopper
Reviewed by: Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea Margaret Vining (bio) Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea. By Kathleen Broome Williams. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+240. $32.95. Grace Murray Hopper had taught mathematics at Vassar and won her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale when World War II changed everything. In 1944, aged thirty-seven, she joined the navy. As a newly minted lieutenant (jg) in the navy's WAVES (Wo…
American Military Technology
A companion to women's military history
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (review)
Reviewed by: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age Margaret Vining (bio) Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. By Kurt W. Beyer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. Pp. xii+389. $27.95. Kurt Beyer is an information scientist with a Ph.D. from Berkeley. He taught at the U.S. Naval Academy before founding his own digital service company. His expertise is evident in a book that primarily offers a fine survey of comput…
Does War Belong in Museums
In 2011, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria's oldest and second largest museum complex, celebrated its 200th anniversary.In preparation of this special event, we decided to dedicate each month of the year 2011 to one of our museums.Thus the focus in September 2011 was on the Landeszeughaus, the Styrian Armoury, considered to be the world's largest historic armoury and one of the most important monuments of Styrian history.Built by the Styrian …
History (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Aeronautics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · First world war (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)