Christopher W Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grasslands Grown
Journal Article Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies Get access Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. By Molly P Rozum. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv, 474 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $35.00.) Christopher W Wells Christopher W Wells Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
British Columbia by the Road
"British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape. Ben Bradley." Canadian Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 128–129
Lifeblood
Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The period from the end of the Civil War to about 1905 saw some key changes in American country roads, including the passage of the first state-aid road laws, the creation of the first federal road agency, and the growth of a strong urban-rural coalition promoting rural road improvements. Although these have been well discussed, two significant but unrecognized changes lay at their heart. First, the effect of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
Tunneling to the Future
In 1928, looking back on the dramatic extension of New York City's subway system, which he had helped secure, George McAneny characterized it as "the city's physical salvation" (p. 268). In Tunneling to the Future, a colorful and detailed examination of the political and financial wrangling behind [End Page 803] the single largest public works project in American history up to that time, Peter Derrick, archivist for the Bronx County Historical So…
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
Tunneling to the Future
In 1928, looking back on the dramatic extension of New York City's subway system, which he had helped secure, George McAneny characterized it as "the city's physical salvation" (p. 268). In Tunneling to the Future, a colorful and detailed examination of the political and financial wrangling behind [End Page 803] the single largest public works project in American history up to that time, Peter Derrick, archivist for the Bronx County Historical So…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The period from the end of the Civil War to about 1905 saw some key changes in American country roads, including the passage of the first state-aid road laws, the creation of the first federal road agency, and the growth of a strong urban-rural coalition promoting rural road improvements. Although these have been well discussed, two significant but unrecognized changes lay at their heart. First, the effect of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s…
The Changing Nature of Country Roads
The Road to the Model T
The Road to the Model T Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age Christopher W. Wells In 1920, a single vehicle dominated the American market for automobiles: Ford's famous Model T. Plain, powerful, and utilitarian, its success peaked in 1923 when Model Ts accounted for almost 55 percent of American automobile production.1 Introduced in 1908 at $850, by 1923 the efficiencies of mass production had allowed For…
Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History
Lifeblood
A War of Mobility
World War II was a global war. It was a war of transport, mobility, and speed, fought in the far corners of the planet, across four continents and four oceans. It was also a gross national product war, fought with huge armies equipped with the fruits of modern industry – guns, artillery, tanks, trucks, airplanes, and thousands of other tools and supplies. To fight a war of men and material simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth, the United…
British Columbia by the Road
"British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape. Ben Bradley." Canadian Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 128–129
Grasslands Grown
Journal Article Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies Get access Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. By Molly P Rozum. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xiv, 474 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $35.00.) Christopher W Wells Christopher W Wells Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Economics (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Economy (3 works)