Jan Todd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3870465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Todd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Todd |
| SIGNATURE | TODD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Mass: Oral History, Innovation Theory, and the Fitness Legacy of the Muscle Beach Scene
The original Muscle Beach, in Santa Monica, California, is a site that looms large in the historical imagination. At once a hotbed of physical culture practices and a pop culture reference point, the ‘gym by the sea’ is often credited for playing a pivotal role in the evolution of twentieth-century health and fitness. An archive of oral history interviews with key figures from Muscle Beach is probed on how the social dynamics of the mid-century s…
Cold hard cash: Commercialization, politics, and amateurism in United States track and field
This article explores the decline of amateurism in the sport of track-and-field between the years 1968 and 1982. In doing so, it pays particular attention to Cold War politics as well as the role played by shoe companies such as Nike, in facilitating that transformation
The Event That Shook the Whole World Up’: Historicizing the 1983 Pan-American Games Doping Scandal
In August of 1983 at the Pan-American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, a multi-faceted doping crisis occurred that overshadowed all other aspects of the games. This essay marks the first attempt to historicize the events surrounding this watershed moment in the fight against drug use in sport. Doping was revealed in three ways in Caracas: by the large number of positive tests that resulted in the first loss to doping of medals in the history of the P…
Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History
Book Review| October 01 2014 Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History Black, Jonathan. Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Pp. 223. Photographs, endnotes, and glossary. $27.95 hb. Dominic G. Morais; Dominic G. Morais The University of Te…
The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs
(2003). The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-90
Cars, Paint, and Chemicals: Industry Linkages and the Capture of Overseas Technology Between the Wars
This paper throws new light on the contentious issue of the car industry's contribution to Australian industrial development between the wars. Against assessments that certain supplier industries were inefficient and technologically stagnant, the paper examines the interactions between the car and paint industries in this period and identifies a stimulus and mechanism for far‐reaching technological change
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
Part I. Overview: 1. Dependency at the periphery: debates and questions 2. Cross-currents of change Part II. Microbes, Rabbits and Sheep: 3. Microbes versus poisonous plants 4. Contagion, conflict and compromise 5. From Paris to Narrandera 6. From foreign to domestic capability Part III. Rocks, Cyanide and Gold: 7. Australian gold, British chemists 8. Transfer agents and colonial connections 9. A challenge for technological imperialists 10. gover…
Catching Up or Marking Time? Technology Transfer and Market Fragmentation in Australia
Australia was a latecomer to industrialisation, dependent on the importation of ‘foreign’ technology to help ‘catch up’. While such a strategy can lead to entrenched structural dependence, a dynamic variant of product cycle theory suggests that windows of opportunity for genuine catching up are created at times of transition to new technological systems or paradigms. Such conditions arose in Australia in the 1920s with the emerging shift from nat…
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
From Paris to Narrandera: Adaptation in the Diffusion of Anthrax Vaccination in the Australian Pastoral Industry
In 1881 Louis Pasteur demonstrated to an incredulous world the efficacy of his vaccine for the prevention of the fatal disease anthrax in sheep and cattle. A decade later Pasteur's nephew and assistant, Adrien Loir, was manufacturing the vaccine in Sydney. But although Loir's operations were begun at the behest of local pastoralists, the diffusion of the Pasteur vaccine was not very successful in Australia. Within a few years it was virtually dis…
The Shipping World, Afloat and Ashore
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
Part I. Overview: 1. Dependency at the periphery: debates and questions 2. Cross-currents of change Part II. Microbes, Rabbits and Sheep: 3. Microbes versus poisonous plants 4. Contagion, conflict and compromise 5. From Paris to Narrandera 6. From foreign to domestic capability Part III. Rocks, Cyanide and Gold: 7. Australian gold, British chemists 8. Transfer agents and colonial connections 9. A challenge for technological imperialists 10. gover…
The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs
(2003). The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-90
The Shipping World, Afloat and Ashore
From Paris to Narrandera: Adaptation in the Diffusion of Anthrax Vaccination in the Australian Pastoral Industry
In 1881 Louis Pasteur demonstrated to an incredulous world the efficacy of his vaccine for the prevention of the fatal disease anthrax in sheep and cattle. A decade later Pasteur's nephew and assistant, Adrien Loir, was manufacturing the vaccine in Sydney. But although Loir's operations were begun at the behest of local pastoralists, the diffusion of the Pasteur vaccine was not very successful in Australia. Within a few years it was virtually dis…
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
Catching Up or Marking Time? Technology Transfer and Market Fragmentation in Australia
Australia was a latecomer to industrialisation, dependent on the importation of ‘foreign’ technology to help ‘catch up’. While such a strategy can lead to entrenched structural dependence, a dynamic variant of product cycle theory suggests that windows of opportunity for genuine catching up are created at times of transition to new technological systems or paradigms. Such conditions arose in Australia in the 1920s with the emerging shift from nat…
Cars, Paint, and Chemicals: Industry Linkages and the Capture of Overseas Technology Between the Wars
This paper throws new light on the contentious issue of the car industry's contribution to Australian industrial development between the wars. Against assessments that certain supplier industries were inefficient and technologically stagnant, the paper examines the interactions between the car and paint industries in this period and identifies a stimulus and mechanism for far‐reaching technological change
Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia
Part I. Overview: 1. Dependency at the periphery: debates and questions 2. Cross-currents of change Part II. Microbes, Rabbits and Sheep: 3. Microbes versus poisonous plants 4. Contagion, conflict and compromise 5. From Paris to Narrandera 6. From foreign to domestic capability Part III. Rocks, Cyanide and Gold: 7. Australian gold, British chemists 8. Transfer agents and colonial connections 9. A challenge for technological imperialists 10. gover…
The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs
(2003). The Strength Builders: A History of Barbells, Dumbbells and Indian Clubs. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-90
Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History
Book Review| October 01 2014 Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History Black, Jonathan. Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds and Passions Shaped Fitness History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Pp. 223. Photographs, endnotes, and glossary. $27.95 hb. Dominic G. Morais; Dominic G. Morais The University of Te…
The Event That Shook the Whole World Up’: Historicizing the 1983 Pan-American Games Doping Scandal
In August of 1983 at the Pan-American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, a multi-faceted doping crisis occurred that overshadowed all other aspects of the games. This essay marks the first attempt to historicize the events surrounding this watershed moment in the fight against drug use in sport. Doping was revealed in three ways in Caracas: by the large number of positive tests that resulted in the first loss to doping of medals in the history of the P…
Cold hard cash: Commercialization, politics, and amateurism in United States track and field
This article explores the decline of amateurism in the sport of track-and-field between the years 1968 and 1982. In doing so, it pays particular attention to Cold War politics as well as the role played by shoe companies such as Nike, in facilitating that transformation
Critical Mass: Oral History, Innovation Theory, and the Fitness Legacy of the Muscle Beach Scene
The original Muscle Beach, in Santa Monica, California, is a site that looms large in the historical imagination. At once a hotbed of physical culture practices and a pop culture reference point, the ‘gym by the sea’ is often credited for playing a pivotal role in the evolution of twentieth-century health and fitness. An archive of oral history interviews with key figures from Muscle Beach is probed on how the social dynamics of the mid-century s…
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