Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.
French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed Americas two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously "unbridgeable" Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose collaborative approach to aeronautical engineering problems helped the ......
How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture. In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals' bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago ......
Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795-2000
This volume examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such carrying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war and national trade policies.
A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects
"This book tracks the life history of insecticide-treated nets to explain how and why this technology became a cornerstone of global malaria control in the twenty first century"--
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Drawing on the extensive documentary resources of the Air Force History and Museums Program, and on memoirs and interviews, this is an account of the performance of US Air Force fighter pilots in the Korean War. It examines their motivations and methods, and the effect on their personal lives.
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Explores the culture of fighter pilots during the Korean War, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, novels, unit records, and interviews with some 50 veterans who served in the Air Force in Korea. Details their training, their backgrounds, and their encounters during battle, demonstrating how their
Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome
An exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance, the Reformation, and the history of the book.
