Arthur Donovan

Biographic Data

ID896220
NAMEArthur Donovan
GIVEN NAMESArthur
FAMILY NAMEDonovan
SIGNATUREDONOVAN A
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Merchant Marine Academy
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS41
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX3

  • Industrializing American Shipbuilding

    Arthur DonovanARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Reviewed by: Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920 Arthur Donovan (bio) Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820–1920. By William H. Thiesen . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp. x+302. $55. William Thiesen has studied ships and shipbuilding from many different angles and the richness of his knowledge is reflected …

  • The Machine in Neptune's Garden

    Arthur DonovanARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by: The Machine in Neptune’s Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment Arthur Donovan (bio) The Machine in Neptune’s Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment. Edited by Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren. Canton, Mass.: Watson, 2004. Pp. xxvii+371. $49.95. This handsomely produced and heavily footnoted collection begins with an introduction in which Helen M. Rozwado…

  • Brutality on Trial

    Arthur Donovan, Edward Gibson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2006

    Brutality on Trial: “Hellfire” Pedersen, “Fighting” Hansen, and the Seaman's Act of 1915 Get access Gibson E. Kay. Brutality on Trial: “Hellfire” Pedersen, “Fighting” Hansen, and the Seaman's Act of 1915. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xix, 225 pp. $34.95 (cloth). Arthur Donovan Arthur Donovan United States Merchant Marine Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal H…

  • The Abandoned Ocean

    Salvatore R Mercogliano, Andrew G Gibson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2002

  • The Abandoned Ocean

    Jeffrey J Safford, Andrew Gibson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. By Andrew Gibson and Arthur Donovan. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 362 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-57003-319-6.) Get access Jeffrey J. Safford Jeffrey J. Safford Montana State UniversityBozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1166…

  • The Abandoned Ocean

    Open AccessAndrew Gibson, A J Gibson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Maritime…2000

  • Longshoremen and mechanization

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEJournal for Maritime Research1999References: 2

  • A Scientific Correspondence during the Chemical Revolution

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1996

  • Science as Public Culture

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1993

  • Mudança científica

    Open AccessLarry Laudan, Arthur Donovan et al.ARTICLEEstudos Avançados1993Cited by: 6References: 55

    Os autores deste ensaio entendem que é preciso testar de forma mais completa as afirmações empíricas das recentes teorias da mudança científica. Tendo em vista facilitar tal empreendimento, apresentam-se em linguagem não-técnica as afirmações empíricas de Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos e Laudan, que estão organizadas por autor e por assunto. Ao final, inclui-se uma bibliografia de estudos de caso

  • Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise

    Arthur Donovan, Frederic Lawrence HolmesARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

    Arthur DonovanARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    1106 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The comparison between Britain and the Continent in the Indus­ trial Revolution “has been a popular pastime among economic historians for many decades now, though a consensus has failed to emerge” (p. 239). Despite a long digression on the impact of the patent system and other technicalities, Mokyr does not provide a new explanation either for Britain’s advantage in the age of steam and cotton or for its r…

  • Lavoisier as Chemist and Experimental Physicist

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1990

  • Lavoisier and the Origins of Modern Chemistry

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEOsiris1988Cited by: 3

  • Science and the Enlightenment . Thomas L. Hankins

    Arthur Donovan, Arthur L DonovanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1987

  • Symposia and Study Programs

    Arthur Donovan, George W Stocking et al.ARTICLEIsis1987

  • A Hotbed of Genius

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1987

  • Materials and Society. Vol. 7, nos. 3 and 4

    Brooke Hindle, Arthur Donovan et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

  • Scientific change

    Open AccessLarry Laudan, Arthur Donovan et al.ARTICLESynthese1986Cited by: 31References: 6

  • Thinking about Engineering

    Arthur DonovanARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

    The nature of engineering, and more particularly the ways in which engineers are trained and the kinds of work they do, are matters of vital concern in our society. This concern and many of the policy issues associated with it are examined in a recently completed study organized and conducted by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council.' This study is unusual in that historians of technology played a major part in the…

  • Fire in the Hole

    Arthur Donovan, Curtis SeltzerARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

  • Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1984

  • The Best of Our Own

    Arthur Donovan, Arthur L Donovan et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1983

  • Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society . Rustum Roy

    Arthur DonovanARTICLEIsis1982

  • Environmental Politics and the Coal Coalition

    Arthur Donovan, Arthur L Donovan et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1981