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America by the Numbers
Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics
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
A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
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
Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952
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 Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry
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
Diseases and Economic Development
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
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
The Remaking of American Environmentalism
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
Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
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.
America by the Numbers
Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics
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
A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
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
Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952
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 Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry
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
Diseases and Economic Development
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
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
The Remaking of American Environmentalism
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
Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
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.