David K Van Keuren

Biographic Data

ID972738
NAMEDavid K Van Keuren
GIVEN NAMESDavid K
FAMILY NAMEVan Keuren
SIGNATUREVAN KEUREN D K
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia University of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX2

  • Cold War Science in Black and White

    Open AccessDavid K Van KeurenARTICLESocial Studies of Science2001Cited by: 7

    In the immediate post-World War II era, researchers with the US Naval Research Laboratory's Radio Counter Measures (RCM) Branch was active in developing electronic intelligence (`elint') technologies and techniques for collecting information on the Soviet Union and its allies. The work of the Branch was often hidden behind unclassified research and engineering programmes at the Laboratory. The first result of this effort was `Project PAMOR' (PAss…

  • The Estate of Social Knowledge

    Suzanne Marchand, Joanne Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1993Cited by: 6

  • The First Golden Age of Rocketry

    David K Van KeurenARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

    836 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE An even more serious weakness is the author’s determination to politicize history. He argues that previous interpretations have been wrong because war and defense questions have been the monopoly of the Right. This labeling of historians is invidious. Correlli Barnett, whose The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (1986) offers a very different interpretation from that of Edg…

  • The Estate of Social Knowledge

    William Graebner, Joanne Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Estate of Social Knowledge. Ed. by JoAnne Brown and David K. van Keuren. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxviii + 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-4060-0.) Get access The Estate of Social Knowledge. Ed. by Brown JoAnne van Keuren David K.. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxviii + 266 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-4060-0.) William Graebner William Graebner State University of New York College at Fredoni…

  • Professionals and Pragmatists

    Robert B Westbrook, Joanne Brown et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1992

  • Curators and Culture

    David K Van KeurenARTICLEIsis1992

  • The First Golden Age of Rocketry

    David K Van Keuren, Frank H WinterARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Science, Progressivism, and Military Preparedness

    David K Van KeurenARTICLETechnology and Culture1992Cited by: 2

    scientific spirit is the discipline of democracy, the escape from drift, the outlook of a free man.' So concludes Walter Lippmann's peroration on Mastery in his 1914 classic Drift and Mastery. The application of scientific method to all aspects of life, Lippmann deduced, necessarily would lead to man's mastery of his physical and social environment and of those internal and external states that conditioned his

  • Cabinets and culture

    Open AccessDavid K Van KeurenARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1989

    Collections of material artifacts played a central institutional and intellectual role in Victorian anthropology. Ethnological theory argued that evolution in material technology recapitulated broader patterns of social evolution. Arrangement of artifacts into developmental typologies thereby provided heuristic exemplars by which theorists could chart the path of broader institutional change. Museums, in consequence, became centers for profession…

  • Theories of Human Evolution

    David K Van KeurenARTICLEIsis1987

  • Orientalism . Edward W. Said

    David K Van KeurenARTICLEIsis1980