Arwen Mohun
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arwen Mohun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohun |
| SIGNATURE | MOHUN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Insurance Era
Midway through her compelling study of how twentieth-century insurance companies shaped American society and politics, Caley Horan shares a stunning fact. By 1964, Prudential Insurance Company claimed to be the third-largest privately held firm in the world. Primed by premiums pouring into its coffers, the company annually pumped an estimated $2.4 billion dollars of its accumulated capital back into the postwar U.S. economy. All that money transl…
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered
As chief statistician for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Frederick L. Hoffman spent many days lugging a typewriter around small-town graveyards in the South during the first decade of the twentieth century. In How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, Dan Bouk explains that this seemingly eccentric exercise had a serious purpose. Hoffman was tabulating birth and death dates from gravestones to fill gap…
The Food Axis
Reviewed by: The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses Arwen Mohun (bio) The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses. By Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. viii+270. $50. “The presence of food gives shape to the architecture of American houses,” Elizabeth Collins Cromley tells readers on the first page of this engaging history. She structure…
On the Frontier of The Empire of Chance
In The Empire of Chance, historians of science Gigerenzer et al. argue that statistical thinking has been "second to no other area of scientific endeavor" in its influence on "modern life and thought" (Gigerenzer et al. 1989, xiv-xv). This article describes how quantitative descriptions of risk associated with industrialization and technological change became part of the mentality of ordinary Americans. It explains why Americans began counting ac…
Steam Laundries
Steam Laundries
His and Hers
Journal Article His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Ed. by Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1803-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-1802-2.) Get access Ruth Schwartz Cowan Ruth Schwartz Cowan State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
The Gender-Technology Relation
Book Reviews The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research. Ed ited by Keith Grint and Rosalind Gill. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. Pp. vii+216; notes, index. $24.95 (paper). The publication of Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, and Thomas Hughes’s edited volume The Social Construction ofTechnological Systems (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987) introduced many historians of technology to the methods and scholarship of sociologists …
Laundrymen Construct Their World
Arwen Palmer Mohun, Laundrymen Construct Their World: Gender and the Transformation of a Domestic Task to an Industrial Process, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 97-120
Versatile Tools
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-8
The Gender-Technology Relation
The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here: Historiography and Directions for Research, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 9-30
Why Mrs. Harrison Never Learned to Iron
Bound by Our Constitution
Journal Article Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage Get access Hart Vivien, Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. xv, 255 pp. $35.00. Arwen Mohun Arwen Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 395–396, https://d…
The Limits of Safety
The Limits of Safety
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 433 plex, insight into administrative management. Schubert discusses in revealing detail how the Corps of Engineers aggressively planned to obtain and control the contract for the construction of these bases, how it made sure it had the power of the purse during construction, and how it set the goals and agenda to complete the work within the three-year time schedule. Problems such as diversion channels for flo…
The Evolution of Useful Things . Henry Petroski
Women and Technology
Women and Technology
technologyand culture Book Reviews 891 about the history of technology, it will probably eventually wind up on the shelves of most serious scholars in the field. John Magney Dr. Magney, an assistant professor in the Department of Technical Resource Manage ment at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaches courses in labor relations and data analysis. He is doing research on concerns with quality and productivity in modem management ideo…
The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris, July 1990
Conference Report THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY MEETING, PARIS, JULY 1990 MIRIAM R. LEVIN AND ARWEN MOHUN The eighteenth meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, was held in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, from the 8th through the 14th ofJuly, 1990. The meeting was organized by Alexandre Herlea of the CNAM. There were three different sets of sessions: …
The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris July 1990
A Culture for Democracy
170 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE is that a restricted economic market and lack of financial support, not unfavorable laws or the lack of ingenuity, handicapped the British electrical industry in the late 19th century. The weak British economy thus constrained Ferranti’s inventive drive, which would have thrived in Germany or the United States. Paradoxically, Wilson also argues that much of the success which the Ferranti firm enjoyed before…
A Culture for Democracy
The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here: Historiography and Directions for Research, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 9-30
Versatile Tools
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-8
On the Frontier of The Empire of Chance
In The Empire of Chance, historians of science Gigerenzer et al. argue that statistical thinking has been "second to no other area of scientific endeavor" in its influence on "modern life and thought" (Gigerenzer et al. 1989, xiv-xv). This article describes how quantitative descriptions of risk associated with industrialization and technological change became part of the mentality of ordinary Americans. It explains why Americans began counting ac…
A Culture for Democracy
170 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE is that a restricted economic market and lack of financial support, not unfavorable laws or the lack of ingenuity, handicapped the British electrical industry in the late 19th century. The weak British economy thus constrained Ferranti’s inventive drive, which would have thrived in Germany or the United States. Paradoxically, Wilson also argues that much of the success which the Ferranti firm enjoyed before…
A Culture for Democracy
The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris, July 1990
Conference Report THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY MEETING, PARIS, JULY 1990 MIRIAM R. LEVIN AND ARWEN MOHUN The eighteenth meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, was held in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, from the 8th through the 14th ofJuly, 1990. The meeting was organized by Alexandre Herlea of the CNAM. There were three different sets of sessions: …
The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris July 1990
The Evolution of Useful Things . Henry Petroski
Women and Technology
Women and Technology
technologyand culture Book Reviews 891 about the history of technology, it will probably eventually wind up on the shelves of most serious scholars in the field. John Magney Dr. Magney, an assistant professor in the Department of Technical Resource Manage ment at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaches courses in labor relations and data analysis. He is doing research on concerns with quality and productivity in modem management ideo…
Bound by Our Constitution
Journal Article Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage Get access Hart Vivien, Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. xv, 255 pp. $35.00. Arwen Mohun Arwen Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 395–396, https://d…
The Limits of Safety
The Limits of Safety
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 433 plex, insight into administrative management. Schubert discusses in revealing detail how the Corps of Engineers aggressively planned to obtain and control the contract for the construction of these bases, how it made sure it had the power of the purse during construction, and how it set the goals and agenda to complete the work within the three-year time schedule. Problems such as diversion channels for flo…
Why Mrs. Harrison Never Learned to Iron
The Gender-Technology Relation
Book Reviews The Gender-Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research. Ed ited by Keith Grint and Rosalind Gill. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. Pp. vii+216; notes, index. $24.95 (paper). The publication of Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, and Thomas Hughes’s edited volume The Social Construction ofTechnological Systems (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987) introduced many historians of technology to the methods and scholarship of sociologists …
Laundrymen Construct Their World
Arwen Palmer Mohun, Laundrymen Construct Their World: Gender and the Transformation of a Domestic Task to an Industrial Process, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 97-120
Versatile Tools
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-8
The Gender-Technology Relation
The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here
Nina E. Lerman, Arwen Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel, The Shoulders We Stand on and the View from Here: Historiography and Directions for Research, Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 1, Special Issue: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology (Jan., 1997), pp. 9-30
Steam Laundries
His and Hers
Journal Article His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Ed. by Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1803-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-1802-2.) Get access Ruth Schwartz Cowan Ruth Schwartz Cowan State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Shifting the Blame
Journal Article Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century Get access Goodman Nan, Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50 (cloth). $22.99 (paper). Arwen P. Mohun Arwen P. Mohun University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journ…
Steam Laundries
On the Frontier of The Empire of Chance
In The Empire of Chance, historians of science Gigerenzer et al. argue that statistical thinking has been "second to no other area of scientific endeavor" in its influence on "modern life and thought" (Gigerenzer et al. 1989, xiv-xv). This article describes how quantitative descriptions of risk associated with industrialization and technological change became part of the mentality of ordinary Americans. It explains why Americans began counting ac…
The Food Axis
Reviewed by: The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses Arwen Mohun (bio) The Food Axis: Cooking, Eating, and the Architecture of American Houses. By Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Pp. viii+270. $50. “The presence of food gives shape to the architecture of American houses,” Elizabeth Collins Cromley tells readers on the first page of this engaging history. She structure…
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered
As chief statistician for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, Frederick L. Hoffman spent many days lugging a typewriter around small-town graveyards in the South during the first decade of the twentieth century. In How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, Dan Bouk explains that this seemingly eccentric exercise had a serious purpose. Hoffman was tabulating birth and death dates from gravestones to fill gap…
Insurance Era
Midway through her compelling study of how twentieth-century insurance companies shaped American society and politics, Caley Horan shares a stunning fact. By 1964, Prudential Insurance Company claimed to be the third-largest privately held firm in the world. Primed by premiums pouring into its coffers, the company annually pumped an estimated $2.4 billion dollars of its accumulated capital back into the postwar U.S. economy. All that money transl…
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