Alan I Marcus
Biographic Data
| ID | 556647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan I Marcus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan I |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcus |
| SIGNATURE | MARCUS A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eloge
In Memoriam
Mark R. Finlay (1960 - 2013)
The New Agricultural College and the New Agricultural History
The recent upsurge in agricultural college enrollments has prompted observers to celebrate the rejuvenation of those institutions and, by extension, rural life. A closer examination suggests otherwise. Rather than engage in traditional agricultural pursuits, agricultural colleges now seek to employ science to produce managers of living biological and ecological systems, managers who will prevent degradation and generally achieve results that ulti…
Would you like fries with that, Sir?’ The evolution of management theories and the rise and fall of total quality management within the American federal government
This article examines the introduction, domination, and diminution of Total Quality Management (TQM) and its allied managerial strategies in the United States federal bureaucracy over the past two decades. It makes a distinction between its use in the later 1980s and early 1990s to spur government productivity and its application by Bill Clinton through the National Performance Review to increase American appreciation for federal governance. It t…
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
Sweets for the Sweet
In 1977, the United States Congress forbade the Food and Drug Administration to outlaw use of the food additive saccharin as an artificial sweetener for a period of three years. Subsequent legislation extended the congressional ban. It remains in effect today. Congress's saccharin action neatly represented late twentieth-century federal regulatory policy. The process had become decidedly antibureaucratic and ultimately democratic. Forces both for…
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Cancer from Beef
Journal Article Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence. By Alan I. Marcus. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xii, 235 pp. $38.50, ISBN 0-8018-4700-1.) Get access Stephen Strausberg Stephen Strausberg University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 353–354, https:…
Technology in America
Journal Article Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. xii + 380 pp. Paper, $10.00.) Get access Gail Cooper Gail Cooper Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078109 Published: 01 June 1991
Technology in America
Science and Medicine in the Old South
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910 by John Alfred Heitmann
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 697 chia is skipped over entirely. In these enterprises and areas, develop ment assumed a different pattern from the one Wright spells out, but the difference is obscured, not explained. Again, though this work is concerned primarily with the functioning of the southern labor market, the influence of organized labor is all but dismissed. Wright’s long view, in sum, enables him to identify cause and consequence…
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Journal Article Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870–1890. By Alan I. Marcus. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985. x + 269 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access Irvin M. May, Jr. Irvin M. May, Jr. Blinn College, Bryan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June…
Boussingault
The City as Social System
WE CAN APPROACH THE ISSUE OF THE CITY AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM IN THE PERIOD from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in several ways. We can ask if cities are or have been systems, a question that focuses on the relationship between people or peoples in urban areas. Yet though a seemingly obvious starting point, that inquiry is not fruitful. The terms social and prove stumbling blocks. Surely whenever more than one person resides in a place a re…
The Strange Career of Municipal Health Initiatives
Professional Revolution and Reform in the Progressive Era
Would you like fries with that, Sir?’ The evolution of management theories and the rise and fall of total quality management within the American federal government
This article examines the introduction, domination, and diminution of Total Quality Management (TQM) and its allied managerial strategies in the United States federal bureaucracy over the past two decades. It makes a distinction between its use in the later 1980s and early 1990s to spur government productivity and its application by Bill Clinton through the National Performance Review to increase American appreciation for federal governance. It t…
Sweets for the Sweet
In 1977, the United States Congress forbade the Food and Drug Administration to outlaw use of the food additive saccharin as an artificial sweetener for a period of three years. Subsequent legislation extended the congressional ban. It remains in effect today. Congress's saccharin action neatly represented late twentieth-century federal regulatory policy. The process had become decidedly antibureaucratic and ultimately democratic. Forces both for…
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
The Strange Career of Municipal Health Initiatives
Professional Revolution and Reform in the Progressive Era
Professional Revolution and Reform in the Progressive Era
The Strange Career of Municipal Health Initiatives
Boussingault
The City as Social System
WE CAN APPROACH THE ISSUE OF THE CITY AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM IN THE PERIOD from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in several ways. We can ask if cities are or have been systems, a question that focuses on the relationship between people or peoples in urban areas. Yet though a seemingly obvious starting point, that inquiry is not fruitful. The terms social and prove stumbling blocks. Surely whenever more than one person resides in a place a re…
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Journal Article Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870–1890. By Alan I. Marcus. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985. x + 269 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access Irvin M. May, Jr. Irvin M. May, Jr. Blinn College, Bryan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June…
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910
The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910 by John Alfred Heitmann
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 697 chia is skipped over entirely. In these enterprises and areas, develop ment assumed a different pattern from the one Wright spells out, but the difference is obscured, not explained. Again, though this work is concerned primarily with the functioning of the southern labor market, the influence of organized labor is all but dismissed. Wright’s long view, in sum, enables him to identify cause and consequence…
Science and Medicine in the Old South
Technology in America
Journal Article Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. xii + 380 pp. Paper, $10.00.) Get access Gail Cooper Gail Cooper Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078109 Published: 01 June 1991
Technology in America
Cancer from Beef
Journal Article Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence. By Alan I. Marcus. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xii, 235 pp. $38.50, ISBN 0-8018-4700-1.) Get access Stephen Strausberg Stephen Strausberg University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 353–354, https:…
Sweets for the Sweet
In 1977, the United States Congress forbade the Food and Drug Administration to outlaw use of the food additive saccharin as an artificial sweetener for a period of three years. Subsequent legislation extended the congressional ban. It remains in effect today. Congress's saccharin action neatly represented late twentieth-century federal regulatory policy. The process had become decidedly antibureaucratic and ultimately democratic. Forces both for…
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Health Care Policy in Contemporary America
Would you like fries with that, Sir?’ The evolution of management theories and the rise and fall of total quality management within the American federal government
This article examines the introduction, domination, and diminution of Total Quality Management (TQM) and its allied managerial strategies in the United States federal bureaucracy over the past two decades. It makes a distinction between its use in the later 1980s and early 1990s to spur government productivity and its application by Bill Clinton through the National Performance Review to increase American appreciation for federal governance. It t…
The New Agricultural College and the New Agricultural History
The recent upsurge in agricultural college enrollments has prompted observers to celebrate the rejuvenation of those institutions and, by extension, rural life. A closer examination suggests otherwise. Rather than engage in traditional agricultural pursuits, agricultural colleges now seek to employ science to produce managers of living biological and ecological systems, managers who will prevent degradation and generally achieve results that ulti…
Mark R. Finlay (1960 - 2013)
In Memoriam
Eloge
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