Deborah Fitzgerald

Dados Biográficos

ID3594085
NOMEDeborah Fitzgerald
PRENOMESDeborah
SOBRENOMEFitzgerald
ASSINATURAFITZGERALD D
AFILIAÇÕESMassachusetts Institute of Technology
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES53
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1983
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ÍNDICE H3

  • World War II and the Quest for Time-Insensitive Foods

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEOsiris2020Citada por: 2Referências: 19

    When one walks around the local supermarket, one is often struck by the proportion of highly processed foods, or what some refer to as "the middle of the store." Yet to the military in the 1940s and 1950s, these same foods represented the apogee of scientific progress-the creation of time-insensitive foods suitable for the rigors of military combat. This article explores the social and technical development of a system for producing such things f…

  • Two Lands, One Problem

    Open AccessDeborah FitzgeraldARTICLEDiplomatic History2018

    In this remarkable first book, Tore Olsson traces the ways in which agricultural and political ambitions, dreams, and ideas flowed back and forth between the American South and Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s. During this period of the “long” New Deal, 1933–1943, progressive and radical thinkers on both sides of the border were able to put their visions of an egalitarian rural and agricultural order into an experimental reality. Not coincidentally,…

  • Roundtable

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Deborah Fitzgerald Deborah Fitzgerald et al.ARTICLEAgricultural History2018Citada por: 5

  • The Profit of the Earth

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    In this remarkable first book, Courtney Fullilove uncovers the many layers of forgotten and ignored history that tell the complex story of the origins of wheat. Fullilove's key insight is that this history is neither linear nor easily known, but rather reflects the constantly changing circumstances of farming over the last ten thousand years and over much of the globe. There really is no single line of, for example, Turkey wheat, or any other kin…

  • Bryan L. McDonald. Food Power

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    For much of the twentieth century, American farmers were trapped in the “farm problem,” a complex and persistent situation in which farm incomes decline although food prices rise. In what has become known as the “technological treadmill,” farmers produce ever more while earning ever less, creating an abundance of commodity crops and products that sit in warehouses and silos awaiting better prices. Bryan L. McDonald’s Food Power: The Rise and Fall…

  • What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History

    Adam Rome, Karl Appuhn et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2005Referências: 9

  • Eating and Remembering

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEAgricultural History2005

    Although most Americans enjoy a plethora of food choices, as well as an abundance of foods throughout the year, most of this food is processed and travels a long way to our tables. In exchange for plentiful food, evidently, we have given up local and regional sources and supplies of food. Since about 1930, the trend toward centralization, standardization, and specialization has discouraged local production in food, as it has discouraged local and…

  • Every Farm a Factory

    Deborah FitzgeraldBOOKEvery Farm a Factory2003

    "During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald investigates how and why farmers chose to modernize at that time, a period of serious economic depression in farming. She argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industr…

  • Consumers in the Country

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Deborah Kay FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    For years, sociologists and many historians have implored fellow scholars to stop accepting the notion of technological determinism and thus much of what we thought we knew about the process by which people have adopted new technologies. While such a mandate is intrinsically appealing and sensible, it has been much harder to attain than one might think. Because people eventually have accepted, sometimes enthusiastically, both the promise and the …

  • Geopolitics and the Green Revolution

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEIsis2000

  • Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Deborah Kay FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

    Reviewed by: Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885–198* Deborah Fitzgerald (bio) Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885–1985. By Paolo Palladino. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. Pp. vii+201; notes, index. $58. In recent years, there has been a spate of dissertations written about scientists' and engineers' efforts to study,…

  • Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Paolo PalladinoARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • Osiris. Vol. 10, Constructing Knowledge in the History of Science

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Arnold Thackray et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

  • Brethren of the Net

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEIsis1996

  • Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Sally H Clarke et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

  • Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity by Sally H. Clarke

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 851 screw companies. Before the 1920s automatic lathes were limited almost exclusively to the production ofscrews or other products that could be machined from wire or metal rods. In the sewing machine industry, where automated, multifunction turret lathes received their widest use, they accounted for only one-sixth of all machines. This hardly amounts to automated “mass production,” as distin­ guished by David…

  • Outstanding in His Field

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    technology and culture Book Reviews 1041 the rich results this interdisciplinary effort can yield, and they raise many questions to guide future study. Fredric L. Quivik Mr. Quivik is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science; his dissertation is an environmental history of copper-smelting technologies in Montana, 1880-1920. Outstanding in His Field: Perspectives on American Agriculture i…

  • Outstanding in His Field

    Deborah Fitzgerald, Frederick V Carstensen et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    Review of: Outstanding in His Field: Perspectives on American Agriculture in Honor of Wayne D. Rasmussen. Carstensen, Frederick V.; Rothstein, Morton; and Swanson, Joseph A., ed

  • Farmers Deskilled

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1993Citada por: 16

    La mecanisation et l'utilisation des techniques chimiques de fertilisa- tion du sol d'abord et l'introduction d'hybrides du mais ensuite, ont fini par avoir un effet defavorable sur la qualification des agriculteurs ame- ricains

  • The Business of Breeding

    Jack Kloppenburg, Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEJournal of American History1991Citada por: 1

    Journal Article The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890–1940. By Deborah Fitzgerald. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xiv + 247 pp. $29.95.) Get access Jack Kloppenburg, Jr. Jack Kloppenburg, Jr. University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 693–694, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079619 Published: 0…

  • Our Purpose is to Serve

    Deborah Fitzgerald, David B DanbomARTICLEJournal of American History1991Citada por: 1

    Journal Article “Our Purpose is to Serve”: The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. By David B. Danbom. (Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1990. xii + 225 pp. $24.00.) Get access Deborah Fitzgerald Deborah Fitzgerald Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 694…

  • The Business of Breeding

    G Terry Sharrer, Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • Beyond Tractors

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLETechnology and Culture1991Citada por: 3

    In his presidential address to the Agricultural History Society eighteen years ago, Clarence Danhof delivered a sharp critique of the state of the field. Danhof, who was acutely disappointed in the randomness of works in agricultural history, argued that the literature suffered from a lack of boundaries, whether these boundaries referred' to geography, time, disciplinary approach, or theoretical grounding. Anything that concerned agriculture in h…

  • Nuts and Bolts of the Past

    Deborah Fitzgerald, David Freeman Hawke et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776–1860. By David Freeman Hawke. New York: Harper & Row and In Context: History and the History of Technology: Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg. Ed. by Stephen H. CutclifFe and Robert C. Post. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press Get access Deborah Fitzgerald Deborah Fitzgerald Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940

    Deborah FitzgeraldARTICLEIsis1990