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        America by the Numbers

        America by the Numbers

        America by the Numbers

        Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics

        by Emmanuel Didier

        Translated by Priya Vari Sen

        Foreword by Theodore M. Porter

        ISBN: 9780262538374

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2020

        How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.
        Power Button

        Power Button

        Power Button

        A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

        by Rachel Plotnick

        ISBN: 9780262038232

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 25, 2018

        Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the...
        Power Lines

        Power Lines

        Power Lines

        Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952

        by Jennifer L. Lieberman

        ISBN: 9780262036375

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 14, 2017

        How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
        The Power Brokers

        The Power Brokers

        The Power Brokers

        The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry

        by Jeremiah D. Lambert

        ISBN: 9780262529785

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2016

        How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring.
        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress

        Diseases and Economic Development

        by Robert A. McGuire and Philip R. P. Coelho

        ISBN: 9780262015660

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 30, 2011

        The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history.
        Inventing American History

        Inventing American History

        Inventing American History

        by William Hogeland

        With Deborah Chasman

        ISBN: 9780262012881

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 13, 2009

        A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
        Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

        Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

        Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival

        The Remaking of American Environmentalism

        by Michael Egan

        ISBN: 9780262512473

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 23, 2009

        Chronicles the activist career of Barry Commoner, one of the most influential American environmental thinkers, and his role in recasting the environmental movement after World War II.
        America as Second Creation

        America as Second Creation

        America as Second Creation

        Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings

        by David E. Nye

        ISBN: 9780262640596

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 17, 2004

        An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.
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