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Author : Robert E. Conot
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553131413
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)
Download or read book A Streak of Luck written by Robert E. Conot and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ainissa Ramirez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542269
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Alchemy of Us written by Ainissa Ramirez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions—and how they shaped our world—with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction) In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines 8 inventions and reveals how they shaped the human experience: • Clocks • Steel rails • Copper communication cables • Photographic film • Light bulbs • Hard disks • Scientific labware • Silicon chips Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
Author : Bhu Srinivasan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399563814
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Americana written by Bhu Srinivasan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things -- the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the twenty-first century. The result is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that, for better or for worse, this nation holds dearest: capitalism. In a winning, accessible style, Bhu Srinivasan boldly takes on four centuries of American enterprise, revealing the unexpected connections that link them. We learn how Andrew Carnegie's early job as a telegraph messenger boy paved the way for his leadership of the steel empire that would make him one of the nation's richest men; how the gunmaker Remington reinvented itself in the postwar years to sell typewriters; how the inner workings of the Mafia mirrored the trend of consolidation and regulation in more traditional business; and how a 1950s infrastructure bill triggered a series of events that produced one of America's most enduring brands: KFC. Reliving the heady early days of Silicon Valley, we are reminded that the start-up is an idea as old as America itself. Entertaining, eye-opening, and sweeping in its reach, Americana is an exhilarating new work of narrative history.
Author : Lerone A Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814708129
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Preaching on Wax written by Lerone A Martin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entrepreneurs and celebrities through their pioneering use of radio, black clergy were largely marginalized from radio. Instead, they relied on other means to get their message out, teaming up with corporate titans of the phonograph industry to package and distribute their old-time gospel messages across the country. Their nationally marketed folk sermons received an enthusiastic welcome by consumers, at times even outselling top billing jazz and blues artists such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. These phonograph preachers significantly shaped the development of black religion during the interwar period, playing a crucial role in establishing the contemporary religious practices of commodification, broadcasting, and celebrity. Yet, the fame and reach of these nationwide media ministries came at a price, as phonograph preachers became subject to the principles of corporate America. In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin offers the first full-length account of the oft-overlooked religious history of the phonograph industry. He explains why a critical mass of African American ministers teamed up with the major phonograph labels of the day, how and why black consumers eagerly purchased their religious records, and how this phonograph religion significantly contributed to the shaping of modern African American Christianity. Instructor's Guide
Author : Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814714102
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book America in the Age of the Titans written by Sean Dennis Cashman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the results of research into primary sources and recent scholarship with an emphasis on leading personalities and anecdotes about them.
Author : Roger Horowitz
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918020
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)
Download or read book His and Hers written by Roger Horowitz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.
Author : Barbara A. Yocum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The House at Glenmont written by Barbara A. Yocum and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert E. Conot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Odyssey written by Robert E. Conot and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948513
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Media Archaeology written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today’s interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an emerging field, the book encourages discussion by presenting a full range of different voices. By revisiting ‘old’ or even ‘dead’ media, it provides a richer horizon for understanding ‘new’ media in their complex and often contradictory roles in contemporary society and culture.
Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412831830
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book President McKinley, War and Empire written by Richard F. Hamilton and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. Volume 1 of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses the adequacy of those readings. In the 1896 election the Republicans, led by William McKinley, were challenged by William Jennings Bryan, a radical and an inflationist, who had defeated the conservative leaders of the Democratic Party. The Bryanites portrayed the 1896 election as a struggle between "Wall Street" and "the people." McKinley was portrayed as a docile, pliable figure whose campaign was directed by an adept Ohio business magnate, Mark Hanna. The McKinley victory meant that "big business" was now "in control." The Cuban insurgency, begun in 1895, gained attention and support from the American newspapers. This began with a circulation war in New York City, with Hearst and Pulitzer publishing "sensational" reports about the struggle in Cuba. The resulting public clamor, it is said, overwhelmed the members of the legislative and executive branches. McKinley and his advisors fended off those demands as best they could but, following the sinking of the Maine, he conceded and asked Congress to authorize intervention. This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims, the basic elements of the progressive history. It reviews McKinley's biography, principally the events leading up to his election victory, including discussion of Hanna's role. It then examines the events leading up to the war. Studies of press content are reviewed and new material is introduced. The work also argues that two other factors were decisive: the efforts of an adept Cuban pressure group and partisan politics. The theoretical implications are explored and an alternative framework, elitism, is argued. The result is a different, a more complex view of the origins of the war.
Author : George Basalla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316101584
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Technology written by George Basalla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, and reappear with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that have long been available to humanity; the second is necessity: the belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological requirements such as food, shelter, and defense; and the third is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological progress. Although the book is not intended to provide a strict chronological account of the development of technology, historical examples - including many of the major achievements of Western technology: the waterwheel, the printing press, the steam engine, automobiles and trucks, and the transistor - are used extensively to support its theoretical framework. The Evolution of Techology will be of interest to all readers seeking to learn how and why technology changes, including both students and specialists in the history of technology and science.
Author : Richard Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351496964
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book President McKinley, War and Empire written by Richard Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. Volume 1 of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses the adequacy of those readings.In the 1896 election the Republicans, led by William McKinley, were challenged by William Jennings Bryan, a radical and an inflationist, who had defeated the conservative leaders of the Democratic Party. The Bryanites portrayed the 1896 election as a struggle between "Wall Street" and "the people." McKinley was portrayed as a docile, pliable figure whose campaign was directed by an adept Ohio business magnate, Mark Hanna. The McKinley victory meant that "big business" was now "in control."The Cuban insurgency, begun in 1895, gained attention and support from the American newspapers. This began with a circulation war in New York City, with Hearst and Pulitzer publishing "sensational" reports about the struggle in Cuba. The resulting public clamor, it is said, overwhelmed the members of the legislative and executive branches. McKinley and his advisors fended off those demands as best they could but, following the sinking of the Maine, he conceded and asked Congress to authorize intervention.This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims, the basic elements of the progressive history. It reviews McKinley's biography, principally the events leading up to his election victory, including discussion of Hanna's role. It then examines the events leading up to the war. Studies of press content are reviewed and new material is introduced. The work also argues that two other factors were decisive: the efforts of an adept Cuban pressure group and partisa
Author : James Haywood Rolling
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137278471
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Swarm Intelligence written by James Haywood Rolling and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising look at the true origins of creativity, urging more group collaboration, and social networking, in the pursuit of innovation
Author : Thomas G. West
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920390
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book In the Mind's Eye written by Thomas G. West and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is recognized as a classic in its field. It still stands alone as a compelling argument against popular myths of conventional intelligence and for the importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as powerful tools to aid and amplify the creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or other learning difficulties.
Author : Edmund Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 081299311X
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Edison written by Edmund Morris and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The House At Glenmont Historic Structure Report, Vol. 2, 1998 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025306435X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's vast rail network running. Virtually every community with a railroad connection had a depot and an agent. These men and occasionally women became the official representatives of their companies and were highly respected. They met the public when they sold tickets, planned travel itineraries, and reported freight and express shipments. Additionally, their first-hand knowledge of Morse code made them the most informed in town. But as times changed, so did the role of, and the need for, the station agent. Beautifully illustrated with dozens of vintage photographs, The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience, brings back to life the day-to-day experience of the station agent and captures the evolution of railroad operations as technology advanced.
