James C Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3934934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James C Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | James C |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5343-3163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From white gold to silicon chips
Unlike most accounts of the origins of Silicon Valley, this essay insists that the valley today is rooted in the Gold Rush, and only through understanding this can scholars fully comprehend the roots of the innovation process that so characterizes the region today. The Gold Rush began a long gestation period in the region's technical sciences that, with its physical, economic and geographic characteristics, comprised a petri dish in which innovat…
The Way of the Ship
Reviewed by: The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000 James C. Williams (bio) The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000. By Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Pp. xv+521. $35. The standard view of American maritime history celebrates the era of blue-water sailing and the introduction of steam power and laments the merchant marine's…
The Human Footprint
Book Review| October 01 2010 The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History. Anthony N. Penna. James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 540–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.540 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation James C. Williams; The Human Footprint: A G…
Titanium
Recent Symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2002-2004
Recent Symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2002–2004 Susan Horning (bio) and James C. Williams (bio) During the past three years, the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) has held its annual symposium in Spain, Russia, and Germany. In June 2002, ICOHTEC met in Granada, Spain, at the invitation of Javier Goicolea, the Fundacion Juanelo Turriano, and the University of Granada. In August …
Titanium
California Earthquakes
California Earthquakes recounts the story of a small group of scientists and engineers who embraced the Progressive Era's faith in science and technology as the one best way to safeguard people from a natural hazard. Their efforts throughout the twentieth century, argues Carl-Henry Geschwind, resulted in the modern "regulatory-state" apparatus that supports earthquake-prediction research and seeks to protect society from seismic hazard. This is a…
Strictly Business
As everyone reading this is surely aware by now, California's electric utility restructuring has gone badly awry. Unregulated wholesale prices for electricity have increased fourfold in the course of a year and over twelvefold on the spot market. In December 2000, power marketers priced gas-generated electricity that cost $250 a megawatt-hour to produce at $2,000 a megawatt-hour (the final negotiated price was $1,500). The state's Independent Sys…
Faulty construction
History Advocacy in California
Research Article| April 01 2000 History Advocacy in California James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2000) 22 (2): 29–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379602 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 Cite Search Sit…
Empowering the West
A good history of the debate over public versus private power has been needed for a long time. Deregulation in the electrical industry reveals that this is still a contentious issue. In California, for example, the struggle of proponents of public power against the unfettered greed of private power --to use the Progressives' language of the last century--is just warming up in the wake of Pacific Gas and Electric's decision to sell off its scores …
Consuming Power
Reviewed by: Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies* James C. Williams (bio) Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. xii+331; illustrations, notes, index. $25. David Nye’s insightful and provocative books Electrifying America and American Technological Sublime are well known to readers of Technology and Culture for contributing importantly to understanding the contex…
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Journal Article Energy and the Making of Modern California. By James C. Williams. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997. xx, 465 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-15-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-884836-16-X) Get access Joseph Petulla Joseph Petulla Emeritus University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Page 20…
Energy and the Making of Modern California
History from Things
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 175 key determinant of the rate of learning. His argument, carefully crafted, is applied to firms in different national and historical contexts. William Parker’s contribution is a tour de force, surveying three centuries of science, technology, and the economy—as well as human istic values and happiness. It would be easy to spend the entire review on EdwardJ. Nell’s ambitious discussion of the stylized cases o…
Energy in World History by Vaclav Smil
690 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Part of the reason questions like these do not get addressed much is that there is little connection between the first three technical chap ters ofMixing the Waters (“Marshalling Support,” “Design,” and “Con struction”) and the later political chapters. For example, we find the corps choosing in 1973—74 to leave one bank of the perched canal in a natural state to create a “chain of lakes” rather than a wa…
Energy in World History
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By William G. Robbins. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0645-9.) Get access James C. Williams James C. Williams De Anza College, Cupertino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 752–753, https://doi.or…
History from Things
The Machine in the University
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 715 The Rice Economies is recommended as a useful introduction to the role of technical change in the development of the Asian economies in which wet rice cultivation plays an important role. It is not, however, the place to stop if one’s interest extends to problems of contempo rary agricultural development. The issues discussed in this book are treated in greater depth and with more rigor in the recent study…
The Machine in the University
Technology and Technical Sciences in History-Icohtec Symposium, Dresden, August 25-29, 1986
Science, Technology and Society in the Community College
Science, Technology and Society in the Community College
Standards of Professional Conduct in California
Research Article| January 01 1986 Standards of Professional Conduct in California James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1986) 8 (1): 57–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377076 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By William G. Robbins. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0645-9.) Get access James C. Williams James C. Williams De Anza College, Cupertino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 752–753, https://doi.or…
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Journal Article Energy and the Making of Modern California. By James C. Williams. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997. xx, 465 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-15-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-884836-16-X) Get access Joseph Petulla Joseph Petulla Emeritus University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Page 20…
From white gold to silicon chips
Unlike most accounts of the origins of Silicon Valley, this essay insists that the valley today is rooted in the Gold Rush, and only through understanding this can scholars fully comprehend the roots of the innovation process that so characterizes the region today. The Gold Rush began a long gestation period in the region's technical sciences that, with its physical, economic and geographic characteristics, comprised a petri dish in which innovat…
Strictly Business
As everyone reading this is surely aware by now, California's electric utility restructuring has gone badly awry. Unregulated wholesale prices for electricity have increased fourfold in the course of a year and over twelvefold on the spot market. In December 2000, power marketers priced gas-generated electricity that cost $250 a megawatt-hour to produce at $2,000 a megawatt-hour (the final negotiated price was $1,500). The state's Independent Sys…
The Social Sciences—Up or Down
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames C. WilliamsMr. James Williams is a graduate of the University of Oregon and obtained his Masters degree from San Jose State College. After several years of secondary school history teaching, he is now teaching at Gavilan College, Gilroy, California
Science, Technology and Society in the Community College
Science, Technology and Society in the Community College
Standards of Professional Conduct in California
Research Article| January 01 1986 Standards of Professional Conduct in California James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1986) 8 (1): 57–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377076 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Technology and Technical Sciences in History-Icohtec Symposium, Dresden, August 25-29, 1986
The Machine in the University
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 715 The Rice Economies is recommended as a useful introduction to the role of technical change in the development of the Asian economies in which wet rice cultivation plays an important role. It is not, however, the place to stop if one’s interest extends to problems of contempo rary agricultural development. The issues discussed in this book are treated in greater depth and with more rigor in the recent study…
The Machine in the University
History from Things
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 175 key determinant of the rate of learning. His argument, carefully crafted, is applied to firms in different national and historical contexts. William Parker’s contribution is a tour de force, surveying three centuries of science, technology, and the economy—as well as human istic values and happiness. It would be easy to spend the entire review on EdwardJ. Nell’s ambitious discussion of the stylized cases o…
Energy in World History by Vaclav Smil
690 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Part of the reason questions like these do not get addressed much is that there is little connection between the first three technical chap ters ofMixing the Waters (“Marshalling Support,” “Design,” and “Con struction”) and the later political chapters. For example, we find the corps choosing in 1973—74 to leave one bank of the perched canal in a natural state to create a “chain of lakes” rather than a wa…
Energy in World History
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By William G. Robbins. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0645-9.) Get access James C. Williams James C. Williams De Anza College, Cupertino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 752–753, https://doi.or…
History from Things
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Energy and the Making of Modern California
Journal Article Energy and the Making of Modern California. By James C. Williams. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1997. xx, 465 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 1-884836-15-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-884836-16-X) Get access Joseph Petulla Joseph Petulla Emeritus University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Page 20…
Consuming Power
Reviewed by: Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies* James C. Williams (bio) Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. By David E. Nye. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Pp. xii+331; illustrations, notes, index. $25. David Nye’s insightful and provocative books Electrifying America and American Technological Sublime are well known to readers of Technology and Culture for contributing importantly to understanding the contex…
Faulty construction
History Advocacy in California
Research Article| April 01 2000 History Advocacy in California James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2000) 22 (2): 29–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379602 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 Cite Search Sit…
Empowering the West
A good history of the debate over public versus private power has been needed for a long time. Deregulation in the electrical industry reveals that this is still a contentious issue. In California, for example, the struggle of proponents of public power against the unfettered greed of private power --to use the Progressives' language of the last century--is just warming up in the wake of Pacific Gas and Electric's decision to sell off its scores …
Strictly Business
As everyone reading this is surely aware by now, California's electric utility restructuring has gone badly awry. Unregulated wholesale prices for electricity have increased fourfold in the course of a year and over twelvefold on the spot market. In December 2000, power marketers priced gas-generated electricity that cost $250 a megawatt-hour to produce at $2,000 a megawatt-hour (the final negotiated price was $1,500). The state's Independent Sys…
Titanium
California Earthquakes
California Earthquakes recounts the story of a small group of scientists and engineers who embraced the Progressive Era's faith in science and technology as the one best way to safeguard people from a natural hazard. Their efforts throughout the twentieth century, argues Carl-Henry Geschwind, resulted in the modern "regulatory-state" apparatus that supports earthquake-prediction research and seeks to protect society from seismic hazard. This is a…
Recent Symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2002-2004
Recent Symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2002–2004 Susan Horning (bio) and James C. Williams (bio) During the past three years, the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) has held its annual symposium in Spain, Russia, and Germany. In June 2002, ICOHTEC met in Granada, Spain, at the invitation of Javier Goicolea, the Fundacion Juanelo Turriano, and the University of Granada. In August …
Titanium
The Way of the Ship
Reviewed by: The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000 James C. Williams (bio) The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000. By Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Pp. xv+521. $35. The standard view of American maritime history celebrates the era of blue-water sailing and the introduction of steam power and laments the merchant marine's…
The Human Footprint
Book Review| October 01 2010 The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History. Anthony N. Penna. James C. Williams James C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 540–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.540 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation James C. Williams; The Human Footprint: A G…
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