Robert Macdougall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Macdougall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdougall |
| SIGNATURE | MACDOUGALL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1383-6275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1903 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
Reviewed by: Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock Robert MacDougall Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2019) Video games, computer games, electronic games—whatever we decide to call them, these games may be the paradigmatic media of 21st-century capitalism. Born in the interstices of the Cold War military-industrial complex, video games…
Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives, Paul Grosswiler (2010)
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Sympathetic Physics: The Keely Motor and the Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth-Century Culture
In Philadelphia in the 1870s, John Worrell Keely announced the invention of a fantastic new motor that could, he promised, drive locomotives, power factories, and even defy gravity without fuel or heat. The Keely Motor became the most notorious perpetual motion scheme of the nineteenth century, attracting believers and investors for nearly thirty years. This article explores the "work" the motor performed for Keely, his supporters, and his critic…
Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Journal Article Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine Get access By Jonathan Coopersmith. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xii, 308 pp. $54.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Page 1226, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav680 Published: 01 March 2016
Towards a Transnational Political History of North America: The View from Canada
Désenclaver l’histoire politique du Canada pour la situer dans une perspective transnationale et la faire dialoguer avec l’histoire nord-américaine suppose d’assumer la fécondité historiographique d’au moins trois « hérésies » opposées aux dogmes du nationalisme canadien: l’histoire canadienne est une histoire américaine, comme le montre notamment l’exemple de ses idées politiques; la formation de la nation canadienne ne date pas de l’instauratio…
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (review)
Reviewed by: The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 Robert MacDougall (bio) The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii+224. $22.99. This is a short, synthetic text by the prolific railway and business historian Maury Klein. It chronicles the rise of big business during the half-century following the Civil War and asserts the centrality of business to the broader narr…
Web Search Engineering and our Emerging Information Ecology Designing and Defining Authority Online
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Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926
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Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
The General Problems of Psychology. Conceptions
The Social Basis of Individuality
Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought Processes
An Essay on Laughter
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives, Paul Grosswiler (2010)
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Web Search Engineering and our Emerging Information Ecology Designing and Defining Authority Online
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The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Essay on Laughter
Lectures on the Experimental Psychology of the Thought Processes
The Social Basis of Individuality
The General Problems of Psychology. Conceptions
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876–1926
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
Web Search Engineering and our Emerging Information Ecology Designing and Defining Authority Online
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The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (review)
Reviewed by: The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 Robert MacDougall (bio) The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii+224. $22.99. This is a short, synthetic text by the prolific railway and business historian Maury Klein. It chronicles the rise of big business during the half-century following the Civil War and asserts the centrality of business to the broader narr…
Towards a Transnational Political History of North America: The View from Canada
Désenclaver l’histoire politique du Canada pour la situer dans une perspective transnationale et la faire dialoguer avec l’histoire nord-américaine suppose d’assumer la fécondité historiographique d’au moins trois « hérésies » opposées aux dogmes du nationalisme canadien: l’histoire canadienne est une histoire américaine, comme le montre notamment l’exemple de ses idées politiques; la formation de la nation canadienne ne date pas de l’instauratio…
Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Journal Article Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine Get access By Jonathan Coopersmith. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xii, 308 pp. $54.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Page 1226, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav680 Published: 01 March 2016
Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives, Paul Grosswiler (2010)
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Sympathetic Physics: The Keely Motor and the Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth-Century Culture
In Philadelphia in the 1870s, John Worrell Keely announced the invention of a fantastic new motor that could, he promised, drive locomotives, power factories, and even defy gravity without fuel or heat. The Keely Motor became the most notorious perpetual motion scheme of the nineteenth century, attracting believers and investors for nearly thirty years. This article explores the "work" the motor performed for Keely, his supporters, and his critic…
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
Reviewed by: Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock Robert MacDougall Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2019) Video games, computer games, electronic games—whatever we decide to call them, these games may be the paradigmatic media of 21st-century capitalism. Born in the interstices of the Cold War military-industrial complex, video games…
When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
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