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29 produkter
Great Energy Transition
America from 1876 to 1929
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 2026
559 kr
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How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization. The era of reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a …
Technology Matters
Av David E. Nye
E-bok, 2007
369 kr
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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always …
Consuming Power
Av David E. Nye
E-bok, 1999
759 kr
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Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world''s largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the …
When the Lights Went Out
Av David E. Nye
E-bok, 2010
246 kr
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Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity''s increasingly central role in American society. Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? …
America's Assembly Line
Av David E. Nye
E-bok, 2013
380 kr
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From the Model T to today''s "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both …
Environmental Humanities
Av David E. Nye, Robert S. Emmett
E-bok, 2017
369 kr
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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 …
Image Worlds
Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 1985
610 kr
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Electrifying America
Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 1992
881 kr
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Consuming Power
A Social History of American Energies
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 1999
907 kr
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America as Second Creation
Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 2004
387 kr
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Narratives And Spaces
Technology and the Construction of American Culture
Av David E. Nye
Inbunden, 1997
1084 kr
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David Nye's Narratives and Spaces examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture, whether as western settlers, consumers or tourists. The book provides an …
Narratives And Spaces
Technology and the Construction of American Culture
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 1997
443 kr
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David Nye's Narratives and Spaces examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture, whether as western settlers, consumers or tourists. The book provides an …
Sorrow and Satisfaction
The Life of Dr. James Dudley Gray
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 2026
510 kr
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Millions of Americans moved west to settle the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains during the tumultuous nineteenth century. In 1850, Dr. James Dudley Gray (1821–1894) set out for Iowa from Marietta, Ohio, following a family migration path pioneered by his oldest brother a decade earlier. …
Introducing Denmark & the Danes
A Two Hour Briefing
Av David E Nye
Häftad, 2012
104 kr
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Visiting or moving to Denmark? Do you want a concise overview of the country? Then this book is definitely for you! This completely updated and considerably expanded edition of Introducing Denmark and the Danes offers an excellent general introduction to Danish culture, politics, and economics, as …
American Century
A Chronology & Orientation (1900-2007)
Av David E Nye, Thomas Johansen
Häftad, 2008
146 kr
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Because of its rapid growth, ubiquitous popular culture, and global power, almost everyone knows many things about the United States. But often these many facts float about rather freely. For those who need a chronology and orientation mixed with scholarly insight, this is the book you need. For …
Beyond the Crisis in US American Studies
Av David E Nye
Häftad, 2007
279 kr
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This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the journal "American Studies in Scandinavia", which began publication in 1967. This book is an invitation to develop a dialogue across the Atlantic. For too long European scholars have watched Americanists in the United States as though looking …
Anti-Landscape
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 2014
1075 kr
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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, …
Environmental Humanities
A Critical Introduction
Av Robert S. Emmett, David E. Nye
Häftad, 2017
259 kr
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When the Lights Went Out
A History of Blackouts in America
Av David E. Nye
Inbunden, 2010
99 kr
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Environmental Humanities
A Critical Introduction
Av Robert S. Emmett, David E. Nye
Inbunden, 2017
849 kr
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Image Worlds
Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930
Av David E. Nye
Inbunden, 1985
366 kr
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When the Lights Went Out
A History of Blackouts in America
Av David E. Nye
Häftad, 2013
175 kr
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