Barton C Hacker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 362390 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barton C Hacker |
| PRENOMES | Barton C |
| SOBRENOME | Hacker |
| ASSINATURA | HACKER B C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oregon State University Corvallis |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
White Man's War, Coloured Man's Labour. Working for the British Army on the Western Front
The Great War was indeed a world war. Imperial powers like Great Britain drew on their far-flung empires not only for resources but also for manpower. This essay examines one important (though still inadequately studied) aspect of British wartime exigency, the voluntary and coerced participation of the British Empire's coloured subjects and allies in military operations on the Western Front. With the exception of the Indian Army in the first year…
Does War Belong in Museums
In 2011, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria's oldest and second largest museum complex, celebrated its 200th anniversary.In preparation of this special event, we decided to dedicate each month of the year 2011 to one of our museums.Thus the focus in September 2011 was on the Landeszeughaus, the Styrian Armoury, considered to be the world's largest historic armoury and one of the most important monuments of Styrian history.Built by the Styrian …
A companion to women's military history
The Complete Soldier
Disrupting Science
Reviewed by: Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975 Barton C. Hacker (bio) Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975. By Kelly Moore. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. x+311. $35. As a sociologist, Kelly Moore is very much concerned with generalizing on the historical data she has unearthed, which are c…
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel
Everyone has heard of the Gatling gun, but few know much about the man who invented it. So claims Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller to justify her foray into interpreting nineteenth-century America history through Richard Jordan Gatling's life. She's probably right about the greater fame of gun than man. He has no full length biography, popular or academic, although the basic facts of his life are easy to learn, largely because his f…
Warfare State
Reviewed by: Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970 Barton C. Hacker (bio) Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. By David Edgerton . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv+364. $32.99. President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address controversially warned Americans about the dangers of a military-industrial complex and the unwarranted influence of technical experts in policymaking. Later, historians joined social scientists in raising que…
American Military Technology
Soldiers and Ghosts
Reviewed by: Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity Barton C. Hacker (bio) Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. By J. E. Lendon. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+468. $35. John Lendon, a Yale Ph.D. now teaching at the University of Virginia, is the author of a well-received but challenging 1997 book, Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World. His new book,…
War Explained Culturally
The Military and Society in Russia, 1450-1917
List of Maps List of Contributors Preface Maps Introduction: The Role of War in Russian History / Marshall Poe, Eric Lohr 1 Troop Mobilization by the Muscovite Grand Princes (1313-1533) / Donald Ostrowski 19 The Costs of Muscovite Military Defense and Expansion / Richard Hellie 41 In Defense of the Realm: Russian Arms Trade and Production in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / J. T. Kotilaine 67 The Second Chigirin Campaign: Late Musco…
The Machines of War
From the standpoint of military technology, the 20th century divides between two eras. The first half of the century saw the culmination of the mechanization of armed forces that had begun midway through the previous century. During most of this period, European innovations dictated the pace and direction of change. World War II changed all that. Europeans became followers of military change driven by the arms race between the USA and the Soviet …
Gunpowder and Firearms
Reviewed by: Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, and:Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia: 1000–1800 Barton C. Hacker (bio) Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India. By Iqtidar Alam Khan. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+263. £20.99. Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia: 1000–1800. Edited by Jos J. L. Gommans and Dirk H. A. Kolff. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. viii+395. £12.99. Speculation has …
Memoirs
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics. By Edward Teller and Judith Schoolery. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2002. Pp. xii+628. $18.95
World Military History Bibliography
War Explained Culturally
Throwing Fire
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. By Alfred W. Crosby. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+206. $26
Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform
In the crisis of the First World War, the vast expansion of military control over civil society included women's work. Women contributed not only directly to war production but also to maintaining the entire socioeconomic structure in jobs such as trolley conductor or farm worker. Hundreds and thousands of women volunteered for war work in social and relief organisations. If their work under wartime conditions did not differ radically from the ce…
A Radar History of World War II
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877-1945
Engineering the Revolution
The Chemical Weapons Taboo
Chet Holifield
132 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE many or blame the Soviet Union for the economic ruin of East Ger many might therefore dry their eyes. Michael Allen Dr. Allen is an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His article “The Puzzle of Nazi Modernism” recently appeared in Technology and Culture 37 (July 1996). Chet Holifield: Master Legislator and Nuclear Statesman. By Richard W. Dyke and Francis X. Gannon. Foreword by Ger…
Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe
Stalin and the Bomb
Elements of Controversy
Of Arms and Men
In this provocative book, Robert O'Connell examines the role and significance of weapons from the dawn of human history to the present, and the attempts of western civilization to come to terms with the grim results of its own inventiveness. This is not simply a history of the technology of weapons. It integrates the evolution of human society with the development of weapons and strategy into a single, coherent story. While primarily historical i…
Military Institutions and the Labor Process
Military institutions have strongly and persistently affected other social and economic institutions, a reality largely ignored by modern scholars of whatever political persuasion. The problem begins with an inability--or unwillingness-to understand military institutions on their own terms. Conservative and Marxist economists alike, for instance, can offer no theory to explain either the causes or the effects of innovation in military technology.…
From Camp Follower to Lady in Uniform
In the crisis of the First World War, the vast expansion of military control over civil society included women's work. Women contributed not only directly to war production but also to maintaining the entire socioeconomic structure in jobs such as trolley conductor or farm worker. Hundreds and thousands of women volunteered for war work in social and relief organisations. If their work under wartime conditions did not differ radically from the ce…
Military Institutions, Weapons, and Social Change
L'histoire de la technologie militaire de la seconde guerre mondiale montre qu'elle a contribue aux developpements et innovations des sciences sociales et de l'anthropologie
Does War Belong in Museums
In 2011, the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria's oldest and second largest museum complex, celebrated its 200th anniversary.In preparation of this special event, we decided to dedicate each month of the year 2011 to one of our museums.Thus the focus in September 2011 was on the Landeszeughaus, the Styrian Armoury, considered to be the world's largest historic armoury and one of the most important monuments of Styrian history.Built by the Styrian …
Military Institutions and Social Order
Engineering a New Order
Gunpowder began the military revolution that molded the modern world. Relatively narrow technical changes in weapons and tactics on early modern European battlefields set in train the transformation of almost every aspect of Western civilization, argued Michael Roberts in 1956.' Widely discussed and critically challenged, his version of the precise nature and timing of change on the equation's military side now commands only qualified respect.2 B…
The Dragon's Tail
Journal Article The Dragon's Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942–1946. By Barton C. Hacker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. x + 258 pp. $25.00.) Get access Gilbert Whittemore Gilbert Whittemore Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 667–668, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887983 Published: …
Radiation Safety, the AEC, and Nuclear Weapons Testing
Research Article| January 01 1992 Radiation Safety, the AEC, and Nuclear Weapons Testing Barton C. Hacker Barton C. Hacker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1992) 14 (1): 31–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378439 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
The Weapons of the West
China and Japan diverged sharply in their responses to the West during the 19th century. At century's end China, still clinging to tradition, threatened to dissolve in chaos, while Japan, having traded its Confucian classics for Western technical manuals, seemed ready to assume the status of Great Power. The contrast appears all the more striking because the two societies were geographically so close and shared so many elements of a common herita…
White Man's War, Coloured Man's Labour. Working for the British Army on the Western Front
The Great War was indeed a world war. Imperial powers like Great Britain drew on their far-flung empires not only for resources but also for manpower. This essay examines one important (though still inadequately studied) aspect of British wartime exigency, the voluntary and coerced participation of the British Empire's coloured subjects and allies in military operations on the Western Front. With the exception of the Indian Army in the first year…
On the Shoulders of Titans
Journal Article On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini. By Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. xx + 625 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical note, and index.) Get access William M. Leary, Jr. William M. Leary, Jr. University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
Greek Catapults and Catapult Technology
Scholars and laymen alike have long displayed a lively interest in ancient catapults.1 Research has focused on the most obvious problem: How did catapults work? Beyond its inherent interest, an answer to this question could perhaps contribute to a fuller understanding of the mechanical technology of antiquity in general. The question itself has largely been answered. Reliable information on the mechanical characteristics of catapults comes primar…
Greek Catapults and Catapult Technology
Scholars and laymen alike have long displayed a lively interest in ancient catapults.1 Research has focused on the most obvious problem: How did catapults work? Beyond its inherent interest, an answer to this question could perhaps contribute to a fuller understanding of the mechanical technology of antiquity in general. The question itself has largely been answered. Reliable information on the mechanical characteristics of catapults comes primar…
Adventures in Research
A Humanistic View of Measuring Mental Health
Secret Sentries in Space
Ways to Spaceflight
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 657 The last four essays are put into an appendix, apparently because the editors, even with their liberal standards of coherence, could not fit them into the regular sections. Two of them, the discussions of the effect of the proposed Solberg Jetport on the Raritan River Watershed and ofjet aircraft as a growing source of pollution, have real merit; the others could have been omitted. These opinions may seem h…
Project Paperclip
Ways to Spaceflight
The Idea of Rendezvous
Late in 1961, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced its plans for a new manned spaceflight project aimed at proving the techniques of orbital rendezvous.1 The first U.S. manned program, Project Mercury, was then on the eve of its attempt to put a man in orbit; and Project Apollo, intended to land Americans on the Moon within the decade, was already under way.2 During 1961, NASA planners had come to see the vital …
The Weapons of the West
China and Japan diverged sharply in their responses to the West during the 19th century. At century's end China, still clinging to tradition, threatened to dissolve in chaos, while Japan, having traded its Confucian classics for Western technical manuals, seemed ready to assume the status of Great Power. The contrast appears all the more striking because the two societies were geographically so close and shared so many elements of a common herita…
Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics
On the Shoulders of Titans
Journal Article On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini. By Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. xx + 625 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical note, and index.) Get access William M. Leary, Jr. William M. Leary, Jr. University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
On the Shoulders of Titans
Destination Moon
The origins of the Lunar Orbiter Program and the activities of the missions then in progress are documented. The period 1963 - 1970 when lunar orbiters were providing the Apollo program with photographic and selenodetic data for evaluating proposed astronaut landing sites is covered
Radioactivity in America
Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe
Imaginations in Thrall
Space Science Comes of Age
Science Fiction and Space Futures
The Day the Sun Rose Twice
Military Enterprise and Technological Change
Controlling the Atom
Military Institutions and the Labor Process
Military institutions have strongly and persistently affected other social and economic institutions, a reality largely ignored by modern scholars of whatever political persuasion. The problem begins with an inability--or unwillingness-to understand military institutions on their own terms. Conservative and Marxist economists alike, for instance, can offer no theory to explain either the causes or the effects of innovation in military technology.…
United States
Raising the Atomic Curtain
The Dragon's Tail
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