George O'Har
Biographic Data
| ID | 4570266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George O'Har |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Har |
| SIGNATURE | HAR G O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Yankee Yorkshireman
The Worst Hard Time
Reviewed by: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan George O’har The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. By Timothy Egan. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Pp. 340. $28.95. The Worst Hard Time was the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction. And while the work is directed toward a popular rather than an academic audien…
Where the Buffalo Roam
Walter Prescott Webb's 1931 work, The Great Plains, remains a work of singular importance in the field of western history. Working almost entirely from secondary sources, Webb manages to produce an elegantly-written, expansive regional history that is brilliantly imaginative, and accurate in its conclusion: that the geographic-environmental character of the great plains forced settlers to modify successful eastern technologies and institutions in…
The Holodeck in the Garden
Reviewed by: The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction George O’Har (bio) The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Edited by Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii+383. $19.95. The way in which contemporary American novelists and filmmakers employ concepts of science and technology in their art is a subject wort…
Technology and Its Discontents
Samuel C. Florman, a civil engineer and author well known for his deep admiration of good engineering and for defending technology against its detractors in works like The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Blaming Technology, and The Introspective Engineer, has produced what he calls a "survival" tale, but which is, in fact, a utopian novel of the old school. The story line of The Aftermath (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001) is straightforw…
Veblen in Perspective
The economist and social theorist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) is familiar to American scholars and graduate students as a master of penetrating irony. That may be the extent of it. In the United States, Veblen's native land, the master's influence has been pushed aside in favor of a more quantitative, less psychological approach to sociology and economics. In Europe his star still shines, though not as brightly as it once did. Europeans have lon…
Technology and Its Discontents
Samuel C. Florman, a civil engineer and author well known for his deep admiration of good engineering and for defending technology against its detractors in works like The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Blaming Technology, and The Introspective Engineer, has produced what he calls a "survival" tale, but which is, in fact, a utopian novel of the old school. The story line of The Aftermath (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001) is straightforw…
Veblen in Perspective
The economist and social theorist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) is familiar to American scholars and graduate students as a master of penetrating irony. That may be the extent of it. In the United States, Veblen's native land, the master's influence has been pushed aside in favor of a more quantitative, less psychological approach to sociology and economics. In Europe his star still shines, though not as brightly as it once did. Europeans have lon…
Technology and Its Discontents
Samuel C. Florman, a civil engineer and author well known for his deep admiration of good engineering and for defending technology against its detractors in works like The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Blaming Technology, and The Introspective Engineer, has produced what he calls a "survival" tale, but which is, in fact, a utopian novel of the old school. The story line of The Aftermath (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001) is straightforw…
The Holodeck in the Garden
Reviewed by: The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction George O’Har (bio) The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Edited by Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii+383. $19.95. The way in which contemporary American novelists and filmmakers employ concepts of science and technology in their art is a subject wort…
Where the Buffalo Roam
Walter Prescott Webb's 1931 work, The Great Plains, remains a work of singular importance in the field of western history. Working almost entirely from secondary sources, Webb manages to produce an elegantly-written, expansive regional history that is brilliantly imaginative, and accurate in its conclusion: that the geographic-environmental character of the great plains forced settlers to modify successful eastern technologies and institutions in…
The Worst Hard Time
Reviewed by: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan George O’har The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. By Timothy Egan. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Pp. 340. $28.95. The Worst Hard Time was the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction. And while the work is directed toward a popular rather than an academic audien…
The Yankee Yorkshireman
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