Steven Lubar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 219961 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Lubar |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Lubar |
| FIRMA | LUBAR S |
| AFILIACIONES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6101-3794 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Representing the pain of others
This article describes some of the techniques museums use to represent the suffering body in exhibitions. Some display human remains, but much more common, especially in Western museums, are stand-ins for the body. Manikins take many forms, including the wax museum's hyperrealistic representations, the history museum's neutral grey figures and the expressionistic figures that represent enslaved people in many recent exhibits. Symbolic objects or …
Heritage Museums and the Public
Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Heritage Museums and the Public
Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Engaging with Nießer and Tomann’s Engaged History
Review Article| November 01 2018 Engaging with Nießer and Tomann’s Engaged History Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Steven Lubar is professor of American Studies, history, and the history of art and architecture at Brown University. His most recent book is Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present (Harvard, 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2018) 40 (4): 33–36. https://doi.org…
The Matter of History
Reviewed by: The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past by Timothy J. LeCain Steven Lubar (bio) The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past. By Timothy J. LeCain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 363. Paperback $23.99. Permission to reprint a review published here may be obtained only from the reviewer. This profound and provocative book argues for a neo-materialist history, a history that considers things as acto…
The Invention of the American Art Museum
Curator as Auteur
Research Article| February 01 2014 Curator as Auteur Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Steven Lubar is professor of American studies at Brown University, where he directs the Public Humanities program, and formerly Chair of the Division of the History of Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2014) 36 (1): 71–76. https://doi.org/1…
The Challenge of Industrial History Museums
Research Article| July 01 2000 The Challenge of Industrial History Museums Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Stephen H. Cutcliffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2000) 22 (3): 11–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379575 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data P…
Beyond the History Standards
Book Review| October 01 1996 Beyond the History Standards National Standards for United States History: Exploring the American Experience. Grades 5-12 Expanded EditionNational Center for History in the Schools Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1996) 18 (4): 145–152. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379791 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio …
In the Footsteps of Perry
Research Article| July 01 1995 In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1995) 17 (3): 25–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378751 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
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History from Things
Representation and Power
Les representations technologiques permettent de situer la connaissance technologique, et tiennent un role important dans le developpement socioculturel et economique
Inventing History
History from Things
Journal Article History from Things: Essays on Material Culture. Ed. by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. xviii, 300 pp. $49.00, ISBN 1-56098-204-7.) Get access Jane C. Busch Jane C. Busch Cooperstown, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 624–625, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081180 Pub…
“Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate”
The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project
Book Review| July 01 1991 The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project: Some Recent Publications Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesSarah H. HealdBlair County and Cambria County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesGray FitzsimonsTwo Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and Saltsbu…
Control through Communication
Control through Communication
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 619 Brown’s choice of subjects. Rather than focus on individuals who figured prominently in the communications revolution—on the heirs, as it were, ofJohn Adams and William Bentley—he turns his attention instead to individuals who were decidedly on the periphery—that is, to the northern artisans, farmers, and middle-class women who consumed the products of the rapidly expanding market for the printed word. Had …
The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law
Inventors, purchasers of patent rights, and users of patented goods all have economic interests in framing and interpretation of patent law. These interests often conflict, for all participants in complex economic, legal, and political game of patent system seek to maximize return from their investment of creativity and capital. Winners and losers are determined by their changing economic and political power and by changing ideologies of technolo…
Engines of Change
Continuity, Chance and Change
Transmitting the power of Niagara
In 1893 the Cataract Construction Company (CCC), after four years of deliberation, decided that the power generated by its turbines at Niagara Falls would be transmitted by alternating current and not by direct current, teledynamic (wire rope), hydraulic, or pneumatic systems, all of which were considered. The author examines the scientific, technological, and cultural contexts of the decision-making process to understand why the CCC's engineers …
Representation and Power
Les representations technologiques permettent de situer la connaissance technologique, et tiennent un role important dans le developpement socioculturel et economique
The Challenge of Industrial History Museums
Research Article| July 01 2000 The Challenge of Industrial History Museums Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Stephen H. Cutcliffe Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2000) 22 (3): 11–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379575 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data P…
In the Footsteps of Perry
Research Article| July 01 1995 In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1995) 17 (3): 25–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378751 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Engines of Change
Curator as Auteur
Research Article| February 01 2014 Curator as Auteur Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Steven Lubar is professor of American studies at Brown University, where he directs the Public Humanities program, and formerly Chair of the Division of the History of Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2014) 36 (1): 71–76. https://doi.org/1…
The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project
Book Review| July 01 1991 The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project: Some Recent Publications Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesSarah H. HealdBlair County and Cambria County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesGray FitzsimonsTwo Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and Saltsbu…
The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law
Inventors, purchasers of patent rights, and users of patented goods all have economic interests in framing and interpretation of patent law. These interests often conflict, for all participants in complex economic, legal, and political game of patent system seek to maximize return from their investment of creativity and capital. Winners and losers are determined by their changing economic and political power and by changing ideologies of technolo…
Engines of Change
Culture and Technological Design in the 19th-Century Pin Industry
Now, plenty of people do really believe that form can follow function, and that if you thoroughly analyse the activity proper to the thing you are designing, then your analysis will provide all the information needed, and the design can be derived logically from the function. Plenty of people still believe that purely functional designs are possible, and believe that they themselves produce them, what is more! But none of them has yet divulged wh…
The Philosophy of Manufactures
The Philosophy of Manufactures
This work collects in a single volume often in their original form the primary texts in the American debate over industrialization between the Revolution the Civil War. These documents reflect the intellectual ideological forces behind the promotion of manufactures, as well as the skepticism resistance which the industrial capitalist aroused in the democratic agrarian new nation. collection demonstrates that there was a heated debate over the ind…
America’s Economic Heritage
304 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Events subsequent to Geraedts’s research have not outdated it but, instead, render the subject even more timely. As China’s moderniza tion drive proceeds, the emphasis on foreign technology acquisition is shifting once again. The initial shift of the early 1980s was from turnkey purchases to arrangements, such as licensing, that both con served foreign exchange and provided greater access to foreign tech…
America's Economic Heritage
Meyer Weinberg's documentary reference, America's Economic Heritage, provides a first-hand view of our nation's economic development. Volume I, From a Colonial to a Capitalist Economy, examines topics such as the growth of manufacturing and a home market, supplying a labor force, the change from imperial rule to self-government, agricultural expansion and industrialization, tariffs, slavery, the growth of transportation, wage labor, and the busin…
The Computer Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Computers have been prime objects for exhibition ever since their invention. Charles Babbage exhibited his Difference Engine at the 1851 London Crystal Palace Exposition, hoping to gain support for further developments and broad exposure and honor for his machine designs. Four years later, Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard showed their calculating machine at the Universal Exposition in Paris. They, too, hoped to gain recognition and sell their mac…
Proprietary Capitalism
The AI Business
What is the bottom line on Artificial Intelligence? The AI Business offers a comprehensive summary of the commercial picture, present and future, for Artificial Intelligence in the computer industry, medicine, the oil industry, and electronic design. AI's brightest and best -- financiers, researchers, and users -- analyze current projects, speculate on trends in factory automation, compare research in Japan and the U.S., and note the pros and con…
Engines of Change
Culture and Technological Design in the 19th-Century Pin Industry
Now, plenty of people do really believe that form can follow function, and that if you thoroughly analyse the activity proper to the thing you are designing, then your analysis will provide all the information needed, and the design can be derived logically from the function. Plenty of people still believe that purely functional designs are possible, and believe that they themselves produce them, what is more! But none of them has yet divulged wh…
Workers on the Edge
Engines of Change
Engines of Change
Engines of Change
Transmitting the power of Niagara
In 1893 the Cataract Construction Company (CCC), after four years of deliberation, decided that the power generated by its turbines at Niagara Falls would be transmitted by alternating current and not by direct current, teledynamic (wire rope), hydraulic, or pneumatic systems, all of which were considered. The author examines the scientific, technological, and cultural contexts of the decision-making process to understand why the CCC's engineers …
Engines of Change
Continuity, Chance and Change
The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project
Book Review| July 01 1991 The Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / America's Industrial Heritage Project: Some Recent Publications Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesSarah H. HealdBlair County and Cambria County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial SitesGray FitzsimonsTwo Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and Saltsbu…
Control through Communication
Control through Communication
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 619 Brown’s choice of subjects. Rather than focus on individuals who figured prominently in the communications revolution—on the heirs, as it were, ofJohn Adams and William Bentley—he turns his attention instead to individuals who were decidedly on the periphery—that is, to the northern artisans, farmers, and middle-class women who consumed the products of the rapidly expanding market for the printed word. Had …
The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law
Inventors, purchasers of patent rights, and users of patented goods all have economic interests in framing and interpretation of patent law. These interests often conflict, for all participants in complex economic, legal, and political game of patent system seek to maximize return from their investment of creativity and capital. Winners and losers are determined by their changing economic and political power and by changing ideologies of technolo…
“Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate”
Inventing History
History from Things
Journal Article History from Things: Essays on Material Culture. Ed. by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. xviii, 300 pp. $49.00, ISBN 1-56098-204-7.) Get access Jane C. Busch Jane C. Busch Cooperstown, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 624–625, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081180 Pub…
In the Footsteps of Perry
Research Article| July 01 1995 In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan Steven Lubar Steven Lubar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1995) 17 (3): 25–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378751 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
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