Brian Black
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3630138 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brian Black |
| PRENOMES | Brian |
| SOBRENOME | Black |
| ASSINATURA | BLACK B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2977-1768 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Caleb Wellum. Energizing Neoliberalism
Ancient Women Philosophers
Despite the common misconception that ancient philosophy was the domain of male thinkers, sources confirm that ancient women engaged in philosophical activity. Bringing together a collection of essays on ancient women thinkers, with special focus on their ideas and contributions to the history of philosophy, this volume is about the earliest women philosophers, their breakthroughs, and the methods we can use to excavate them. The essays survey th…
Ancient Women Philosophers
An Environmental History of the Civil War
Beginning from the assumption that humans are “connected creatures” in a dynamic natural community, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver write, “Within that community, the natural world always affects any human activity. In turn, human actions, in war or any other enterprise, alter nature.” After listing some of the different scholarly approaches that have been attempted, they continue that environmental historians still lack a work that considers …
The Subtlety of Subtales
Many scholars have identified sūkṣma dharma (subtle dharma ) as a central theme of the Mahābhārata. However, beyond recognizing it as an understanding of dharma that is elusive and ambiguous, there has been relatively little investigation into the meaning and implications of sūkṣma dharma . As this article shows, even if the central episodes of the main story leave sūkṣma dharma undefined or unclear, the Mahābhārata ’s embedded narratives ( upākh…
Politics without Fear
This paper will analyse a series of dialogues that features kings named Janaka, which appear in the Śānti Parvan of the Mahābhārata. Although there is some variation among these episodes, kings named Janaka tend to be characterised as exemplary rulers who engage in dialogue with learned philosophers and who are strongly associated with the ideals of self-cultivation, renunciation, and liberation. I will argue that the name Janaka functions as a c…
A Thousand Ways Denied
Reviewed by: A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold Brian C. Black (bio) A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana By John T. Arnold. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Well researched and nicely il…
Harpoon to Derrick. Lessons from an American Energy Transition of the 1860's
Burning Up
Reviewed by: Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Simon Pirani Brian C. Black (bio) Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. By Simon Pirani. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Pp. 272. Paperback $27. Addressing the many readers who will come to Burning Up from economic history, Simon Pirani immediately explains to his readers that his book is about energy: focused on these technological, social and economic systems,…
Shale Boom
Shale Boom applies Diana Davids Hinton’s careful research on the energy industry toward our current boom to develop the shale resource in the area of Fort Worth, Texas. Waning traditional reserves of petroleum led many geologists to forecast the end of fossil fuels in the early twenty-first century. Hinton accurately explains that “What turned dire forecasts upside down was the use of new Barnett Shale, and it has had immense national and global …
Schubert’s Development of Harmonic Motives in his Early String Quartets
This essay looks at Schubert’s handling of harmonic motives in the first movements of four of his early string quartets dating from the period of approximately 1811 until late 1814, when he was fourteen to seventeen years old. Despite their many structural problems, these pieces provide an insight into Schubert’s development as a composer of sonata form. Even in the earliest of the examples studied, the young composer attempts to draw affective a…
Energy and Civilization
Energy and Civilization:A History Brian Black (bio) Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. 568. Hardcover $39.95. As a sub-discipline of the History of Technology, the study of energy has expanded significantly in the last few decades. Some of this new scholarship has looked at microscopic case studies, such as pipeline development, tar sand mining, and fracking for natural gas. Since 2010 other writing has tied energy studies to meta-h…
Energy in Pennsylvania History
A Story of Six Rivers
Urban Rivers
Draupadī in the Mahābhārata
This paper will explore three dimensions of Draupadī's literary personality: (1) as a divine figure with a cosmic destiny; (2) as an enraged and defenseless victim of sexual abuse; and (3) as a female scholar (paṇḍitā),who contributes to the Mahābhārata's programmatic examination of dharma (justice). By looking at these three interconnected aspects of her character, the paper will trace her main appearances in the story, engage with scholarly dis…
Rethinking the Upanisadic Vamsas
This paper takes a literary approach to the major vamsas in the Brahmanas and Upanisads. I will demonstrate that the vamsas follow a number of structural and compositional conventions, which are employed to construct sacred histories, indicate different branches of descent, combine different lineages, and claim authoritative transmissions vis-à-vis other lineages. By treating the vamsas as a literary genre, rather than as an empirical historical …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Petropolis
Horses at Work
Ambattha and Svetaketu
This paper focuses on similarities between two literary characters: Śvetaketu from the Upanis.ads and Ambat.t.ha from the Dīgha Nikāya. By comparing these two characters, as well as the characters with whom they interact, I will suggest that these literary figures from com-peting religious traditions appear in different presentations of the same story. Both Śvetaketu and Ambat.t.ha are depicted as brahmin students who are young and arrogant as th…
The Character of "Character" in Early South Asian Religious Narratives
This essay introduces the five subsequent articles, all of which focus on one or more literary characters from South Asian religious narratives. Covering examples from source texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, this essay will introduce the main characters discussed in the subsequent articles, examine some general features pertaining to the “character” of literary characters in South Asian religious narratives, identify some of the sc…
Rivals and Benefactors
This paper will examine the portrayal of Brahmins in the Ambattha, Sonadanda, and Kutadanta Suttas. As I will argue, the Brahmin characters in these suttas emerge as complexly ambivalent figures who are depicted, simultaneously, as competitors for royal patronage and as potential benefactors. Considering Brahmin characters in this way, I hope to offer some fresh insights into the teachings of these texts and into the imagined audiences of the com…
On BP's Deepwater Horizon Live Video Feed
Petrolia
Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus
A Story of Six Rivers
Urban Rivers
The Character of "Character" in Early South Asian Religious Narratives
This essay introduces the five subsequent articles, all of which focus on one or more literary characters from South Asian religious narratives. Covering examples from source texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, this essay will introduce the main characters discussed in the subsequent articles, examine some general features pertaining to the “character” of literary characters in South Asian religious narratives, identify some of the sc…
Brian Black on the Copse at Gettysburg
Petrolia
Journal Article Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom Get access Black BrianPetrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom 2000Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Pressxiv235$42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6317-1 Martin V. Melosi Martin V. Melosi University of HoustonHouston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Page 1550, https://doi.org/…
Draupadī in the Mahābhārata
This paper will explore three dimensions of Draupadī's literary personality: (1) as a divine figure with a cosmic destiny; (2) as an enraged and defenseless victim of sexual abuse; and (3) as a female scholar (paṇḍitā),who contributes to the Mahābhārata's programmatic examination of dharma (justice). By looking at these three interconnected aspects of her character, the paper will trace her main appearances in the story, engage with scholarly dis…
Rivals and Benefactors
This paper will examine the portrayal of Brahmins in the Ambattha, Sonadanda, and Kutadanta Suttas. As I will argue, the Brahmin characters in these suttas emerge as complexly ambivalent figures who are depicted, simultaneously, as competitors for royal patronage and as potential benefactors. Considering Brahmin characters in this way, I hope to offer some fresh insights into the teachings of these texts and into the imagined audiences of the com…
Brian Black on the Iconography of Crude
Authority in the Valley
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. By John Brinckerhoff Jackson. Illustrations, notes, index Landscape in America. Edited by George F. Thompson. Illustrations, index
Reclaiming the Arid West
Journal Article Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley Bloomington and Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. By Donald C. Jackson Lawrence Get access Brian Black Brian Black Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1439…
Paradise Valley, Nevada
Technology and culture Book Reviews 995 he is also engaged in a long-term research project on the Rayonnant Gothic cathe dral of Metz. Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings ofan American Place. By Howard Wight Marshall. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. Pp. xiv+152; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth). Recent years have brought closer analysis of the vernacular forms that make up the American community …
Paradise Valley, Nevada
Stonemasons from the Alpine valleys of northwestern Italy shaped the architectural face of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada in the 1860s and 1870s. Drawing on their own distinctive skills, they constructed the constellation of granite and sandstone buildings that are the region's most visible landmarks. Marshall's analysis of this architectural legacy, illustrated with 229 photographs and 70 line drawings, is not only a valuable resource for sc…
Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus
From nature's nation to Shamu on a stick
From Nature’s Nation to Shamu on a Stick Brian Black (bio) Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 313 pages. $18.95. The crowd gasps in orchestrated amazement. The massive mammal leaps out of the water-filled tank to expose its breadth. Throughout the performance, Shamu demonstrates the cetacean’s immense power, but also something more. Suddenly, the o…
Great Camps of the Adirondacks . By Harvey H. Kaiser. Hope, Human and Wild
Oil and Ideology
In Oil and Ideology Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien seek to explore the ways in which images of a business are defined and perpetuated. In so doing, they address what they call "channels of discourse," each of which "has specific contextual information and characteristic perspectives along with broader elements of ideology" (p. xiii). The channels of discourse they emphasize here include operational, technological, economic, political, and …
Petrolia
Petrolia
Journal Article Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom Get access Black BrianPetrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom 2000Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Pressxiv235$42.50, ISBN 0-8018-6317-1 Martin V. Melosi Martin V. Melosi University of HoustonHouston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 4, March 2002, Page 1550, https://doi.org/…
Petrolia
"In Petrolia Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of changes in attitudes toward consumption and the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell. Known as "Petrolia," the …
Giant Under the Hill
In August 1901, the New York Journal reported that "Texas had found her glory. It is Oil." By 1905, more than a quarter of the crude oil pumped in the United States came from Texas. Where there had been only speculation in oil prior to 1901, by 1917 the state had twenty-six refineries valued at over $48 million. What caused such a vast transformation? In Giant Under the Hill, Ellen Rienstra, Judith Linsley, and Jo Ann Stiles argue that Texas's gl…
Brian Black on the Copse at Gettysburg
Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata
Virtual America
Reviewed by: Virtual America: Sleepwalking through Paradise Brian Black (bio) Virtual America: Sleepwalking through Paradise. By John Opie. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Pp. xviii+260. $45. John Opie, one of the founding voices of environmental history, has connected the history of technology to the environment in seminal work on aquifers and other portions of the landscape. His latest book, Virtual America, is more idiosyncratic t…
Brian Black on the Iconography of Crude
Rivals and Benefactors
This paper will examine the portrayal of Brahmins in the Ambattha, Sonadanda, and Kutadanta Suttas. As I will argue, the Brahmin characters in these suttas emerge as complexly ambivalent figures who are depicted, simultaneously, as competitors for royal patronage and as potential benefactors. Considering Brahmin characters in this way, I hope to offer some fresh insights into the teachings of these texts and into the imagined audiences of the com…
On BP's Deepwater Horizon Live Video Feed
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Petropolis
Horses at Work
Ambattha and Svetaketu
This paper focuses on similarities between two literary characters: Śvetaketu from the Upanis.ads and Ambat.t.ha from the Dīgha Nikāya. By comparing these two characters, as well as the characters with whom they interact, I will suggest that these literary figures from com-peting religious traditions appear in different presentations of the same story. Both Śvetaketu and Ambat.t.ha are depicted as brahmin students who are young and arrogant as th…
The Character of "Character" in Early South Asian Religious Narratives
This essay introduces the five subsequent articles, all of which focus on one or more literary characters from South Asian religious narratives. Covering examples from source texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, this essay will introduce the main characters discussed in the subsequent articles, examine some general features pertaining to the “character” of literary characters in South Asian religious narratives, identify some of the sc…
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