Harold L Platt
Biographic Data
| ID | 957879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold L Platt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold L |
| FAMILY NAME | Platt |
| SIGNATURE | PLATT H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nature’s Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937, By Elizabeth Grennan Browning
Journal Article Nature’s Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937. By Elizabeth Grennan Browning Get access Nature’s Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937 By Elizabeth Grennan Browning (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. vi + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95.) Harold L Platt Harold L Platt Loyola University Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA hpla…
Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s
Journal Article Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s Get access Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s. By Jay Hakes. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. ix, 397 pp. Cloth, $36.95. Paper, $26.95.) Harold L Platt Harold L Platt Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Following the Flows: New Perspectives on Transnational Urbanism
Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy
Mineral Rites is a critique of capitalism that blames virtually all of modern society's shortcomings on the insatiable consumption of fossil fuels. Everything from class conflict and racial discrimination to climate change and “technofundamentalism,” Bob Johnson posits, resulted from the energy transition two hundred years ago to coal and then to oil at the turn of the twentieth century (p. 8). Expressing moral outrage, this practitioner of the e…
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence
Exploding Cities: Housing the Masses in Paris, Chicago, and Mexico City, 1850—2000
In The Mystery of Capitalism , the darling of neoliberalism, Hernando de Soto posits that secure property titles explain “why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else.” While social scientists have taken him to task for an oversimplification of the causes and remedies of poverty, historians have contributed little to this important policy debate. Applying comparative methods across time and space, such a retrospective analysis ex…
From Hygeia To the Garden City: Bodies, Houses, and the Rediscovery of the Slum in Manchester, 1875—1910
The rapid and widespread acceptance of germ theories of disease among domestic sanitarians during the 1870s—1980s was one of the roots of Progressivism. Their work as so-called house doctors helped shift reform from a moral to a social environmentalism. Germ theories of invisible microbes dissolved the boundaries between inside and outside the body, home, and city. Reformers gave less attention to changing destructive personal behavior and more t…
City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History (review)
Reviewed by Harold L. Platt City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History. Edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. vii+288. $50. Does every history conference deserve packaging its proceedings into a book for a broader audience? I would answer from personal experience that some presentations merit publication while others only flesh out the books that follow in their wake.…
Clever Microbes: Bacteriology and Sanitary Technology in Manchester and Chicago during the Progressive Age
A neglected aspect of the history of germ theories is its use in the purification of sewage. In the 1890s, progressive reformers rapidly developed bacteriological methods of wastewater treatment. A comparison of the United Kingdom's Manchester and the United States' Chicago shows, however, that science and technology were mediated by political culture and institutions. In Manchester, a politics of deference and strong extralocal government gave t…
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
Catherine Mulholland was five years old when the career of her famous grandfather came to a sudden tragic end with the bursting of the Saint Francis Dam. The catastrophe of March 13, 1928, claimed at least four hundred lives, becoming “the greatest American civil engineering failure in the twentieth century.” Until that moment, William Mulholland had achieved a larger-than-life, Horatio Alger stature that leapt beyond bourgeois respectability to …
Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890–1930
The emergence of urban environmental history
The three books under review represent the origins and promise of a relatively new field of study, urban environmental history. Joel Tarr's collection of previously published essays retraces the intellectual odyssey of its single most important pioneer. Concerned about contemporary pollution problems, he has spent a quarter of a century exploring the frontiers of scholarship on the relationship between cities and their technologies. In contrast, …
The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D. C., 1861-1902
World War I and the Birth of American Regionalism
Soon after American entry into World War I, Colonel Charles Keller of the Army Corps of Engineers confronted an emergency on the home front that threatened to stymie victory abroad. For several years, the West Point career officer had been in charge of overseeing the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls, New York. Now Keller began receiving urgent messages from manufacturers in nearby Buffalo complaining that shortages of electrici…
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power
Journal Article A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power. By Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xxvi + 596 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-262-08198-9.) Get access A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power. By Hunter and Lynwood Bryant Louis C.. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xxvi + 596 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-262-08198-9.)…
Urban Electrification
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930
Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930
Journal Article The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Harold L. Platt. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Get access The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Platt Harold L.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Perry R. Duis Perry R. Duis University of Illinois, Chica…
Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
Journal Article Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 295 pp. $34.95 and Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 274 pp. $42.50 Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this aut…
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Journal Article Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. $37.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1412–1413, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078379 Published: 01 Marc…
Disposable Cities
The Cost of Energy: Technological Change, Rate Structures, and Public Policy in Chicago, 1880-1920
The New Deal in the Urban South
Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890–1930
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930
Journal Article The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Harold L. Platt. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Get access The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Platt Harold L.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Perry R. Duis Perry R. Duis University of Illinois, Chica…
Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
Journal Article Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 295 pp. $34.95 and Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 274 pp. $42.50 Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this aut…
Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy
Mineral Rites is a critique of capitalism that blames virtually all of modern society's shortcomings on the insatiable consumption of fossil fuels. Everything from class conflict and racial discrimination to climate change and “technofundamentalism,” Bob Johnson posits, resulted from the energy transition two hundred years ago to coal and then to oil at the turn of the twentieth century (p. 8). Expressing moral outrage, this practitioner of the e…
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence
Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940-1980
Journal Article Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940–1980. By Kenneth Fox. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. xiii + 274 pp. $27.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 518, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908325 Published: …
Exploding Cities: Housing the Masses in Paris, Chicago, and Mexico City, 1850—2000
In The Mystery of Capitalism , the darling of neoliberalism, Hernando de Soto posits that secure property titles explain “why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else.” While social scientists have taken him to task for an oversimplification of the causes and remedies of poverty, historians have contributed little to this important policy debate. Applying comparative methods across time and space, such a retrospective analysis ex…
From Hygeia To the Garden City: Bodies, Houses, and the Rediscovery of the Slum in Manchester, 1875—1910
The rapid and widespread acceptance of germ theories of disease among domestic sanitarians during the 1870s—1980s was one of the roots of Progressivism. Their work as so-called house doctors helped shift reform from a moral to a social environmentalism. Germ theories of invisible microbes dissolved the boundaries between inside and outside the body, home, and city. Reformers gave less attention to changing destructive personal behavior and more t…
Clever Microbes: Bacteriology and Sanitary Technology in Manchester and Chicago during the Progressive Age
A neglected aspect of the history of germ theories is its use in the purification of sewage. In the 1890s, progressive reformers rapidly developed bacteriological methods of wastewater treatment. A comparison of the United Kingdom's Manchester and the United States' Chicago shows, however, that science and technology were mediated by political culture and institutions. In Manchester, a politics of deference and strong extralocal government gave t…
The emergence of urban environmental history
The three books under review represent the origins and promise of a relatively new field of study, urban environmental history. Joel Tarr's collection of previously published essays retraces the intellectual odyssey of its single most important pioneer. Concerned about contemporary pollution problems, he has spent a quarter of a century exploring the frontiers of scholarship on the relationship between cities and their technologies. In contrast, …
World War I and the Birth of American Regionalism
Soon after American entry into World War I, Colonel Charles Keller of the Army Corps of Engineers confronted an emergency on the home front that threatened to stymie victory abroad. For several years, the West Point career officer had been in charge of overseeing the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls, New York. Now Keller began receiving urgent messages from manufacturers in nearby Buffalo complaining that shortages of electrici…
La ville électrique. Les réseaux régionaux d'énergie et la croissance de Chicago. 1893-1933
Entre les deux expositions universelles de 1893 et de 1933, Samuel Insull construit un réseau de distribution électrique régional qui va alimenter une région de 20 000 km2. Après avoir fait son apprentissage comme secrétaire particulier de Thomas Edison, Insull est le premier directeur de centrale à saisir les caractéristiques uniques — à la fois d'ordre économique et géographique — de la technologie électrique. Dès 1898, il comprend que la conce…
The Emergence of a City in the Modern South: Pensacola 1900-1945
Gilded Age City: Politics, Life and Labor in Petersburg, Virginia, 1874-1889
City and Suburb-The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970
City and Suburb—The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970 Teaford Jon C., City and Suburb—The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850–1970. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. vii, 231 pp. (Johns Hopkins Studies in Urban Affairs), $15.00. Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Assistant Professor of History Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910
Journal Article City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830–1910. By Harold L. Piatt. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. XX + 252 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, and index. $29.95.) Get access David R. Goldfield David R. Goldfield University of North Carolina, Charlotte Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 7…
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910
La ville électrique. Les réseaux régionaux d'énergie et la croissance de Chicago. 1893-1933
Entre les deux expositions universelles de 1893 et de 1933, Samuel Insull construit un réseau de distribution électrique régional qui va alimenter une région de 20 000 km2. Après avoir fait son apprentissage comme secrétaire particulier de Thomas Edison, Insull est le premier directeur de centrale à saisir les caractéristiques uniques — à la fois d'ordre économique et géographique — de la technologie électrique. Dès 1898, il comprend que la conce…
Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930
Journal Article Nashville in the New South, 1880–1930. By Don H. Doyle. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xvii + 288 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, essay on selected sources, and index. $19.95.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 705–…
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1915
Sault Ste. Marie: A Project Report
Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940-1980
Journal Article Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940–1980. By Kenneth Fox. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. xiii + 274 pp. $27.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 518, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908325 Published: …
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
Disposable Cities
The Cost of Energy: Technological Change, Rate Structures, and Public Policy in Chicago, 1880-1920
The New Deal in the Urban South
Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry
Journal Article Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry. By Richard F. Hirsh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiv + 274 pp. $37.50.) Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1412–1413, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078379 Published: 01 Marc…
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power
Journal Article A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power. By Louis C. Hunter and Lynwood Bryant. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xxvi + 596 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-262-08198-9.) Get access A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. III: The Transmission of Power. By Hunter and Lynwood Bryant Louis C.. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xxvi + 596 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-262-08198-9.)…
Urban Electrification
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930
Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region
The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930
Journal Article The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Harold L. Platt. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Get access The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. By Platt Harold L.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 318 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-226-67075-9.) Perry R. Duis Perry R. Duis University of Illinois, Chica…
Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
Journal Article Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833–1872. By Robin L. Einhorn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 295 pp. $34.95 and Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis. By Jeffrey S. Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 274 pp. $42.50 Get access Harold L. Platt Harold L. Platt Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this aut…
World War I and the Birth of American Regionalism
Soon after American entry into World War I, Colonel Charles Keller of the Army Corps of Engineers confronted an emergency on the home front that threatened to stymie victory abroad. For several years, the West Point career officer had been in charge of overseeing the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls, New York. Now Keller began receiving urgent messages from manufacturers in nearby Buffalo complaining that shortages of electrici…
The Nation and Its City: Politics, "Corruption," and Progress in Washington, D. C., 1861-1902
The emergence of urban environmental history
The three books under review represent the origins and promise of a relatively new field of study, urban environmental history. Joel Tarr's collection of previously published essays retraces the intellectual odyssey of its single most important pioneer. Concerned about contemporary pollution problems, he has spent a quarter of a century exploring the frontiers of scholarship on the relationship between cities and their technologies. In contrast, …
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