Jean Christie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Christie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Christie |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The autor is Assistant Professor of History at Fairleigh Dickinson University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Machine-Age Ideology
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 423 evoke the sense of family fostered in many who lived there and who had not experienced the feeling before or since the dam building. The juxtaposition of a worker’s description of running the number eleven cableway across the top of the dam site, feet hooked into a rope and hanging hundreds of feet above the canyon floor, with his memory of going home, dead tired, to a house where the wind blew so hard the …
Machine-Age Ideology
Steinmetz
technology and culture Book Reviews 699 could have been used as a standard to evaluate some of the lesser contributions on radar that were included. Second, comments concerning the 20 percent of the entries in foreign languages. Some Russian-language entries have annotations that fall below the standards so well demonstrated everywhere else. Some are just translations of the title or are limited to such laconic comment as “Kostenko was an electri…
Steinmetz
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry by Richard F. Hirsh
1126 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE even a long essay bringing out a dozen examples and treating them as themes or exemplars of mainstream issues for historians and policy analysts. The book is badly copyedited. Minor mistakes of translation or transcription might have been caught (p. 65), one fuzzy photograph is apparently printed upside down (p. 87), and commas seem to be used randomly. Its contribution, however, is clear, and even if it i…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands
FDR's Utopian
FDR's Utopian
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 139 grander and more general solution is required. Our technology must be embedded in a scheme of things firm enough to control our tech nical operations and direct them to civilizing ends. To discover how to create a culture that “weds competence to grace and wisdom to know-how” is the task at hand (p. xii). Florman has been around long enough to know that the kind of union he seeks will not be produced by th…
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Ella Flagg Young
Journal Article Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader. By Joan K. Smith. (Ames: Educational Studies Press/Iowa State University Research Foundation, 1979. xvi + 272 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access Jean Christie Jean Christie Great Neck, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 173–174, https://doi.org/10.230…
The Mississippi Valley Committee
The Mississippi Valley Committee
Ella Flagg Young
Journal Article Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader. By Joan K. Smith. (Ames: Educational Studies Press/Iowa State University Research Foundation, 1979. xvi + 272 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $12.95.) Get access Jean Christie Jean Christie Great Neck, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 173–174, https://doi.org/10.230…
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
FDR's Utopian
FDR's Utopian
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 139 grander and more general solution is required. Our technology must be embedded in a scheme of things firm enough to control our tech nical operations and direct them to civilizing ends. To discover how to create a culture that “weds competence to grace and wisdom to know-how” is the task at hand (p. xii). Florman has been around long enough to know that the kind of union he seeks will not be produced by th…
Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry by Richard F. Hirsh
1126 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE even a long essay bringing out a dozen examples and treating them as themes or exemplars of mainstream issues for historians and policy analysts. The book is badly copyedited. Minor mistakes of translation or transcription might have been caught (p. 65), one fuzzy photograph is apparently printed upside down (p. 87), and commas seem to be used randomly. Its contribution, however, is clear, and even if it i…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Steinmetz
technology and culture Book Reviews 699 could have been used as a standard to evaluate some of the lesser contributions on radar that were included. Second, comments concerning the 20 percent of the entries in foreign languages. Some Russian-language entries have annotations that fall below the standards so well demonstrated everywhere else. Some are just translations of the title or are limited to such laconic comment as “Kostenko was an electri…
Steinmetz
Machine-Age Ideology
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 423 evoke the sense of family fostered in many who lived there and who had not experienced the feeling before or since the dam building. The juxtaposition of a worker’s description of running the number eleven cableway across the top of the dam site, feet hooked into a rope and hanging hundreds of feet above the canyon floor, with his memory of going home, dead tired, to a house where the wind blew so hard the …
Machine-Age Ideology
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Economics (3 works)