Frances Robb
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Robb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Robb |
| SIGNATURE | ROBB F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Southwestern Virginia's Railroad
Southwestern Virginia's Railroad
360 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The authors are primarily interested in how people at construc tion camps lived and not so much what they actually did in building dams. Thus, readers will not find this to he a particular revealing source in regard to dam technology or the process of dam construc tion per se. (On p. 109, e.g., the authors exhibit a weak understand ing of how the manufacture ofcement at Roosevelt always depended on the i…
Beautiful Machine
424 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE explanatory. In the end, one obtains an impersonal, seemingly superficial understanding of why and how these places came about. I believe the inclusion of the attitudes, values, and ideas of the historic persons involved would have enriched this section. In part 3, “Perceiving the Landscape,” Francaviglia turns to the issues of the group for whom this book seems most intended: historic preservationists. He …
Beautiful Machine
A Photo Album of Ohio's Canal Era, 1825-1913
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A Photo Album of Ohio's Canal Era, 1825-1913
Beautiful Machine
424 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE explanatory. In the end, one obtains an impersonal, seemingly superficial understanding of why and how these places came about. I believe the inclusion of the attitudes, values, and ideas of the historic persons involved would have enriched this section. In part 3, “Perceiving the Landscape,” Francaviglia turns to the issues of the group for whom this book seems most intended: historic preservationists. He …
Beautiful Machine
Southwestern Virginia's Railroad
Southwestern Virginia's Railroad
360 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The authors are primarily interested in how people at construc tion camps lived and not so much what they actually did in building dams. Thus, readers will not find this to he a particular revealing source in regard to dam technology or the process of dam construc tion per se. (On p. 109, e.g., the authors exhibit a weak understand ing of how the manufacture ofcement at Roosevelt always depended on the i…
American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · American History and Culture (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Modernization theory (2 works) · Plan (archaeology) (2 works)