Science & Technology in American Society & Culture From the Second Industrial Revolution to the Space Age (1870 to 1970) Examiner: Daniel J. Kevles Examinee: Matt Gunterman Date: September 2, 2009 I. General Overviews of American Science & Technology II. Stirrings of a New Economic & Industrial Order (1870 to 1920) III. In the Midst of Economic & Political Upheaval (1920 to 1945) IV. Undergirding a World Wrought by Superpowers (1945 to 1970) I. General Overviews of American Science & Technology A. Hunter Dupree. Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities to 1940. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957. Roger L. Geiger. To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900 1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.. Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Thomas P. Hughes. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870 1970. New York: Viking, 1989. Daniel J. Kevles. The Physicists: The History of A Scientific Community in Modern America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995 c 1977. Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alex Keyssar, and Daniel J. Kevles. Inventing America: A History of the United States, 2 nd. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Alan L. Olmstead and Paul Webb Rhode. Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Ronald Rainger et al, ed. The Expansion of American Biology. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991. 1
I. Stirrings of a New Economic & Industrial Order (1870 to 1920) Alfred D. Chandler. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. William Cronon. Nature s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. Alan Trachtenberg. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Olivier Zunz. Making America Corporate, 1870 1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Paul F. Barrett. The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900 1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. Daniel J. Kevles, Federal Legislation for Engineering Experiment Stations: The Episode of World War One, Technology and Culture, 12 (April 1971), 182 189. Martin J. Schiesl. The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1800 1920. Berkeley: University of California, 1977. Jon C. Teaford. The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Ruth Schwartz Cowan. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Carroll W. Pursell. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Ruth Oldenziel. Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870 1945. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. Stanley K. Schultz. Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800 1920. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. 2
Robert M. Fogelson. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880 1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Sarah Bradford Landau. Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865 1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Martin V. Melosi. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. David E. Nye. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880 1940. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990. II. In the Midst of Economic and Political Upheaval (1920 1945) Amy Sue Bix. Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs: America s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929 1981. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Claudia Clark. Radium Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910 1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Mark S. Foster. Henry J. Kaiser: Builder of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Susan Smulyan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920 1934. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Mark I. Gelfand. A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933 1965. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Kenneth T. Jackson. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. Government and Technology in the Great Depression, Technology and Culture, 20 (January 1979), 162 174. Ronald C. Tobey. Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 3
Joel Dinerstein. Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Claude S. Fisher. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California, 1992. Ronald R. Kline. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Gwendolyn Wright. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. Roger E. Bilstein. Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Nelson Manfred Brake. Water for the Cities: A History of the Urban Water Supply Problem in the United States. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1956. Howard L. Preston. Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979. Joel A. Tarr. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron: University of Akron Press, 1996. III. Undergirding a World Wrought by Superpowers (1945 1970) Marsha E. Ackermann. Cool Comfort: America s Romance with Air Conditioning. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Brian Balogh. Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclea Power, 1945 1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Barbara Kelly. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. 4
David H. DeVorkin. Science with a Vengeance: How the Military Created the U. S. Space Sciences after World War II. New York: Springer Verlag, 1993. Samuel P. Hays. A History of Environmental Politics since 1945. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Linda Hunt. Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1944 1990. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1991. Mark H. Rose. Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1939 1989. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. Paul S. Boyer. By the Bomb s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1985. Lynn Spigel. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Idea in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Allan M. Winkler. Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Stephen J. Whitfield. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin. Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. New York: Routledge, 1996. Thomas P. Hughes. Rescuing Prometheus. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Clay McShane. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Bruce E. Seely. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. 5