James Spiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 950489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Spiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Spiller |
| SIGNATURE | SPILLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Society on the Edge
Journal Article Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Get access Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States. Ed. by Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D Pooley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv, 403 pp. Paper, $34.99.) James Spiller James Spiller Suny Brockport, Brockport, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Inventing Disaster
As Cynthia A. Kierner notes, Americans are tragically familiar with costly “disasters”—hurricanes, tornados, wild fires—that inflict community suffering and significant loss of life and property. Unlike calamitous mass shootings, which are strictly “societal maladies,” disasters, as here defined, are less “intentional or foreseeable” even if their underlying natural causes can be fueled by people (anthropogenic climate change) and their destructi…
Floating Coast
Bathsheba Demuth is a sensitive observer who lived for a time near the Bering Strait. A talented scholar and writer who poetically draws on her connections to its landscape and indigenous peoples, she uses a wealth of historical sources (literature, scientific research, government reports, ethnographic studies, indigenous oral histories) to weave a compelling environmental history of both sides of the strait since the mid-nineteenth century. She …
Landscapes of Hope
Since American environmental history emerged nearly fifty years ago, it has grown into a dynamic and diverse field with thematic boundaries that overlap with many historical disciplines. This overlap is evident in Brian McCammack's excellent book, which integrates a rich array of sources and historiographies in a revealing narrative about African Americans in Chicago during the interwar period. Unlike many other environmental histories pertaining…
Inventing the American Astronaut
Journal Article Inventing the American Astronaut Get access Inventing the American Astronaut. By Matthew H. Hersch. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiv, 219 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $27.00.) James Spiller James Spiller College at BrockportState University of New YorkBrockport, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 3, December 20…
Empty Pleasures
Journal Article Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda Get access Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda. By Carolyn de la Peña. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 279 pp. $32.50, ISBN978-0-8078-3409-1.) James Spiller James Spiller College at Brockport State University of New York Brockport, New York [email protected] Search for other works by …
Re-Imagining United States Antarctic Research as a Defining Endeavor of a Deserving World Leader
Touching on the modern politics of Antarctica and the shifting interests that the USA and people of other nations had in that continent, this paper examines the imprint of politics and culture on US public discourse about the US Antarctic research program. It argues that US government officials, scientists, and mass media responded to one another, evolving cultural values, and these dynamic politics and interests by changing the way they depicted…
Radiant Cuisine
Shortly after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared beef exposed to gamma radiation fit for human consumption in 1997, several supermarket chains began selling irradiated ground beef. Recent incidents in which thousands of Americans had been poisoned and several had died from eating hamburgers contaminated by Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 bacteria seemed to have created a market for meat that could be proved safe to e…
Floating Coast
Bathsheba Demuth is a sensitive observer who lived for a time near the Bering Strait. A talented scholar and writer who poetically draws on her connections to its landscape and indigenous peoples, she uses a wealth of historical sources (literature, scientific research, government reports, ethnographic studies, indigenous oral histories) to weave a compelling environmental history of both sides of the strait since the mid-nineteenth century. She …
Empty Pleasures
Journal Article Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda Get access Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda. By Carolyn de la Peña. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 279 pp. $32.50, ISBN978-0-8078-3409-1.) James Spiller James Spiller College at Brockport State University of New York Brockport, New York [email protected] Search for other works by …
Radiant Cuisine
Shortly after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared beef exposed to gamma radiation fit for human consumption in 1997, several supermarket chains began selling irradiated ground beef. Recent incidents in which thousands of Americans had been poisoned and several had died from eating hamburgers contaminated by Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 bacteria seemed to have created a market for meat that could be proved safe to e…
Re-Imagining United States Antarctic Research as a Defining Endeavor of a Deserving World Leader
Touching on the modern politics of Antarctica and the shifting interests that the USA and people of other nations had in that continent, this paper examines the imprint of politics and culture on US public discourse about the US Antarctic research program. It argues that US government officials, scientists, and mass media responded to one another, evolving cultural values, and these dynamic politics and interests by changing the way they depicted…
Radiant Cuisine
Shortly after the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared beef exposed to gamma radiation fit for human consumption in 1997, several supermarket chains began selling irradiated ground beef. Recent incidents in which thousands of Americans had been poisoned and several had died from eating hamburgers contaminated by Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 bacteria seemed to have created a market for meat that could be proved safe to e…
Empty Pleasures
Journal Article Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda Get access Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda. By Carolyn de la Peña. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 279 pp. $32.50, ISBN978-0-8078-3409-1.) James Spiller James Spiller College at Brockport State University of New York Brockport, New York [email protected] Search for other works by …
Inventing the American Astronaut
Journal Article Inventing the American Astronaut Get access Inventing the American Astronaut. By Matthew H. Hersch. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiv, 219 pp. Cloth, $90.00. Paper, $27.00.) James Spiller James Spiller College at BrockportState University of New YorkBrockport, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 3, December 20…
Landscapes of Hope
Since American environmental history emerged nearly fifty years ago, it has grown into a dynamic and diverse field with thematic boundaries that overlap with many historical disciplines. This overlap is evident in Brian McCammack's excellent book, which integrates a rich array of sources and historiographies in a revealing narrative about African Americans in Chicago during the interwar period. Unlike many other environmental histories pertaining…
Floating Coast
Bathsheba Demuth is a sensitive observer who lived for a time near the Bering Strait. A talented scholar and writer who poetically draws on her connections to its landscape and indigenous peoples, she uses a wealth of historical sources (literature, scientific research, government reports, ethnographic studies, indigenous oral histories) to weave a compelling environmental history of both sides of the strait since the mid-nineteenth century. She …
Inventing Disaster
As Cynthia A. Kierner notes, Americans are tragically familiar with costly “disasters”—hurricanes, tornados, wild fires—that inflict community suffering and significant loss of life and property. Unlike calamitous mass shootings, which are strictly “societal maladies,” disasters, as here defined, are less “intentional or foreseeable” even if their underlying natural causes can be fueled by people (anthropogenic climate change) and their destructi…
Society on the Edge
Journal Article Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States Get access Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States. Ed. by Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D Pooley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv, 403 pp. Paper, $34.99.) James Spiller James Spiller Suny Brockport, Brockport, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
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