David E Nye
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186349 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David E Nye |
| PRENOMES | David E |
| SOBRENOME | Nye |
| ASSINATURA | NYE D E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2393-2305 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Leo Marx's Legacy
An assessment of Leo Marx’s career, from his youth in New York and Paris, Harvard education, and military service in World War II, to the major themes in his scholarship during 65 years of teaching at Minnesota, Amherst College, and MIT. Best known for his The Machine in the Garden, Marx was one of the founding scholars of American Studies, but he also made seminal contributions to the History of Technology and the environmental humanities. His w…
Harari's World History
Yuval Noah Harari's three books, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, propose a sweeping world history that takes an externalist view of technology, minimizing the importance of cultural difference and individual free will. His deterministic narrative argues that a single world culture is emerging and that artificial intelligence inevitably will replace human conscious…
Narratives of Technology by J. M. van der Laan
Reviewed by: Narratives of Technology by J. M. van der Laan David E. Nye (bio) Narratives of Technology. By J. M. van der Laan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 278. Hardcover $109.99. Readers of this journal will know John Staudenmaier’s classic Technology’s Storytellers as an essential study of SHOT methodologies in practice. J. M. van der Laan makes no reference to Staudenmaier’s classic, presumably because he is primarily interested in…
Technology
Book review
Sustaining Lake Superior
In 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency (epa) granted a corporation permission—without hearings or an environmental impact statement—to inject 550 million gallons of sulfuric acid into a Wisconsin mine as an attempt to extract copper. Anishinaabe activists blocked a train carrying the acid across their reservation and began legal proceedings to prevent this experiment in “solution mining” (157–158). This is one of many fascinating stories in…
The Environmental Humanities
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field,…
The Wheel
Reviewed by: The Wheel: Inventions & Reinventions by Richard W. Bulliet David E. Nye (bio) The Wheel: Inventions & Reinventions. By Richard W. Bulliet. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. $27.95. This clearly written, beautifully illustrated, and well-argued book ought to be read by every historian of technology. Richard Bulliet here broadens and greatly amplifies his The Camel and the Wheel (1975). The Wheel is an ambitious surve…
The Age of Edison
Journal Article The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Get access Ernest Freeberg. (New York: Penguin, 2013. 354 pp. Cloth, $27.95. Paper, $17.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Page 1285, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav115 Published: 01 March 2015
The Anti-Landscape
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how som…
The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980
Awareness of global warming has been widespread for two decades, yet the American political system has been slow to respond. This essay examines, first, political explanations for policy failure, focusing at the federal level and outlining both short-term partisan and structural explanations for the stalemate. The second section surveys previous energy regimes and the transitions between them, and policy failure is explained by the logic of Thoma…
Book Symposium on The Agrarian Vision
Car Country
Reviewed by: Car Country: An Environmental History by Christopher W. Wells David E. Nye (bio) Car Country: An Environmental History. By Christopher W. Wells. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Pp. xxxiv+428. $40. Christopher Wells’s environmental history of the American adoption of the automobile was more than a decade in the making, and its notes and bibliography fill 115 pages. Deftly written and well-illustrated, Car Country reject…
Reconstructing the view
Reconstructing the View contains three parts. Most compellingly, it offers 64 color plates, many covering two pages. These are not individual images but photographs taken by Mark Klett and Byron Wo
Consumption of Energy
Anthropologists working within a functionalist tradition considered energy to be a fundamental need, along with food, water, and shelter. In 1949, Leslie White argued that systems of energy were so fundamental that societies could be classified according to how much light, heat, and power they had mastered. The society with the greatest access to energy was the most advanced. The most primitive were those that controlled nothing more than their o…
Designing Tomorrow
Reviewed by: Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s David Nye (bio) Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Edited by Robert W. Rydell and Laura Burd Schiavo. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+210. $45. This lavishly illustrated volume accompanied a major exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. It is not a catalog, but six essays dealing with U.S. expositions held duri…
Are Blackouts Landscapes
Udgivelsesdato: December
Wonder Shows
Reviewed by: Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America David E. Nye (bio) Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America. By Fred Nadis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+318. $26.95. As its title promises, Wonder Shows is an entertaining book. It covers public performances of various kinds from about 1830 to the present, primarily in the United States, though at times covering s…
Technology and the Production of Difference
Technology and the Production of Difference David E. Nye (bio) Just as the linguistic turn once invited all Americanists to consider rhetoric and representation as crucial parts of every analysis, the field of technology is becoming unavoidable for anyone concerned with communications, material culture, labor, capitalism, globalization/Americanization, or the social construction of culture itself. In part, this is because the meanings of an artif…
Human-Built World
The Electric Vehicle
Gijs Mom has training as both engineer and historian, which, combined with mastery of French, German, English, and Dutch makes possible an in-depth international perspective. Mom only grudgingly accepts part of Thomas Hughes's systems approach and does not adopt “technological momentum” to explain the gasoline car's victory over the electric (see Hughes, Networks of Power [1983]). Mom insists that “the expectations, technology, organization, appl…
Reinventing Eden
Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. By Carolyn Merchant. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xii+308. $25
Technology, Nature, and American Origin Stories
Udgivelsesdato: January
Cecelia Tichi's Embodiment of a Nation
Manufacturing the Future
Journal Article Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. By Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 270 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-521-65118-2.) Get access David E. Nye David E. Nye Odense University, Odense, Denmark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/267…
Empowering the West
Journal Article Empowering the West: Electrical Politics before FDR. By Jay L. Brigham. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xii, 211 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0920-2.) Get access David E. Nye David E. Nye Odense University, Odensey Denmark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1370–1371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568679 Published: 01 Dec…
American Technological Sublime
Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale applications of prowess. American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here …
Innovation as a Social Process
Journal Article Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870–1900. By W. Bernard Carlson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 377 pp. $44.50, ISBN 0-521-39317-5.) David E. Nye David E. Nye Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 673–67…
Narratives and Spaces
Journal Article Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11196-7. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11197-5.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4,…
Ritual tomorrows
Udgivelsesdato: Fall
Image Worlds
The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980
Awareness of global warming has been widespread for two decades, yet the American political system has been slow to respond. This essay examines, first, political explanations for policy failure, focusing at the federal level and outlining both short-term partisan and structural explanations for the stalemate. The second section surveys previous energy regimes and the transitions between them, and policy failure is explained by the logic of Thoma…
Technology and the Production of Difference
Technology and the Production of Difference David E. Nye (bio) Just as the linguistic turn once invited all Americanists to consider rhetoric and representation as crucial parts of every analysis, the field of technology is becoming unavoidable for anyone concerned with communications, material culture, labor, capitalism, globalization/Americanization, or the social construction of culture itself. In part, this is because the meanings of an artif…
Technology, Nature, and American Origin Stories
Udgivelsesdato: January
The Anti-Landscape
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coastal areas inundated by rising seas, and many others. The Anti-Landscape examines the emergence of such sites, how they have been understood, and how som…
Consuming Power
Journal Article Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. By David E. Nye. (Cambridge: mit Press, 1998. xiv, 331 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-262-14063-2.) Get access Rudi Volti Rudi Volti Pitzer College, Claremont, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1050–1051, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567237 Published: 01 December 1998
From Landscape to Cityscape
Udgivelsesdato: June
Technology and Cultural Difference
The United States is generally understood to be a capitalist, industrial offshoot of Europe, whose culture has been transformed by contact with Native-American, African, and Asian cultures.It is currently unfashionable to assert the existence of a common American cultural experience.I want to confront head-on the question of national character and its relationship to technology.Americans long believed that both their machines and the way they use…
The Workers' Museum in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, they had nowhere to hold meetings and organize in the face of police harassment. To solve this problem they constructed the Workers' Hall, inaugurated in 1879 and since then in continuous use as a site for trade union meetings. Most notably, the International Socialist Congress held deliberations there in 1910, with Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Jean Jaures, and many other famous labor leaders of the period in attendance. Today, Danish labor…
Henry Ford
Early American Commercial Photography
Public Relations as Covert Political Communication
The present essay has several purposes: (1) to demonstrate the qualitative difference between public relations and advertising, (2) to provide a model of public relations as a form of communication, and(3) to ground these observations on a case study of a well-documented historical example.The particular case, the public relations activities of American utilities in favor of private rather than public ownership, serves all three purposes.The util…
American Studies as a Set of Discourses
Semiotics and Alchemy
Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research
Journal Article Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research. By George Wise. (New Yotk: Columbia University Press, 1985. xiii + 375 pp. $29.00.) and Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890–1930. By David E. Nye. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. xv + 188 pp. $20.00.) Get access James H. Madison James H. Madison Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Photography as Communication
Image Worlds
The Invented Self
CONTENTS: Introduction The Clothes and Buttons of a Man A Semiotic History The Archive Text The West Orange Edition, 1895 The Menlo Park Edition, 1880 The Public Edisons of 1880 Light's Golden Jubilee Verbal Invention Four Kinds of Meditation The Self as Contradiction Index
Image Worlds
Roland Marchand's Advertising the American Dream
Image Worlds
Image Worlds
Consuming Images
The Workers' Museum in Copenhagen
Copenhagen, they had nowhere to hold meetings and organize in the face of police harassment. To solve this problem they constructed the Workers' Hall, inaugurated in 1879 and since then in continuous use as a site for trade union meetings. Most notably, the International Socialist Congress held deliberations there in 1910, with Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Jean Jaures, and many other famous labor leaders of the period in attendance. Today, Danish labor…
When Old Technologies Were New
When Old Technologies Were New
Technology and culture Book Reviews 1045 position history is an important contribution to the growing histori ography of international expositions. Robert W. Rydell Dr. Rydell is associate professor of history at Montana State University. He is currently completing a sequel to All the World’s a Fair (Chicago, 1984) that carries the history of America’s international expositions through the Second World War. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinki…
Electrifying America
Jean Francois Lyotard's 'The Postmodern Condition
Shloss
Dos Passos, Agee, Steinbeck, and Maileremphasizing throughout their complex relations to photography.To a certain extent she does emphasize direct influence, for example stressing Dreiser's early attraction to Stieglitz's images of the city and his later rejection of pictorialism in The Genius, or the impact of Soviet cinema on Dos Passos in devising a composition strategy for USA.But Shloss is more interested in comparing photography and writing…
Pioneers of Photography
340 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE lications and patents; and the beginning and termination of research projects. Many of these topics remind us that analyzing R&D within the corporate context is not the only way to write studies relating tech nology to its surrounding culture. The account of the discovery of nylon and neoprene suggests the continuing need for systematic stud ies of the processes of discovery and innovation. The discussion…
Pioneers of Photography
David Glassberg's 'American Historical Pageantry
Electrifying America
Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America by Martin V. Melosi
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 361 artisanal moral economy. Jervis ordered the assistant in charge of the Croton office to remove from it all “articles that do not belong to it and which only promote confusion. . . . Allow no smoking and no play of any kind in the office” (p. 67). The bare effort to economize on accounts extended directly into the raw materials of style. Lushness was private, like emotion in the family. Similarly, when Jervi…
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