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...Richard A. Lanham Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Richard A. Lanham The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum a mid-September weekend in 1988, a number of scholars met at Duke Univer­ sity and the University of North Carolina...

...Lisa Trahair 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Lisa Trahair The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton In his essay ‘‘The Question Concerning Tech- nology Martin Heidegger argues...

...Tetsuo Najita Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Tetsuo Najita On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan The rise of modern subjectivity and man-centered individualism is seen here not merely as an avoid­ able mistake, but as a phase in the course of human emancipation...

...Guy V. Beckwith Technology and Myth in the Homeric Age Guy V. Beckwith Technology plays an important role in the Homeric epics, as Samuel Florman demonstrates in The Existential Pleasures ofEngineering) The num­ ber of references to tools and techniques in Homer in an age we might consider...

...R. F. Baum Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 The Uniqueness of Modern Technology JR. F. Baum A scepticism tracing back to Ranke and aimed originally at grand, predictive overviews of history in the style of Hegel or Comte has in some academic quarters reached a point where...

...Robert F. Durden Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology . By Green Constance McL. . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1956 . Pp. vii , 215 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 538 The South Atlantic Quarterly as relaying the involved analyses...

...F. R. Aumann Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 TECHNOLOGY, CENTRALIZATION, AND THE LAW F. R. AUMANN SOCIETY TODAY is moving with unprecedented activity. Modern technology is responsible for this condition. Indeed, a new civilization has arisen, based on scientific discoveries...

...Robert S. Smith Refrigeration in America: A History of a New Technology and Its Impact . By Anderson Oscar Edward Jr. Princeton : Princeton University Press for the University of Cincinnati , 1953 . Pp. xiii , 344 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book...

...Alexander Wilson Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Alexander Wilson Technological Utopias It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance of Disneyland in the American imagination. Opened in 1956 in Anaheim, a then-distant suburb of Los Angeles, Disney­ land...

...Sneja Gunew 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sneja Gunew Technologies of the Self: Corporeal Affects of English To move past speaking foreign words to taking them...

...Joseph S. Berliner Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Some International Aspects of Soviet Technological Progress Joseph S. Berliner The rate and direction of technological advance in any country depend primarily on its domestic institutions and policies. The structures...

...L. V. Berkner Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Educating Southern Manpower for Technological Change L. V. Berkner What a delightful idea to honor a great figure in American educa­ tion with an intellectual exercise close to his heart! Powerful insti­ tutions of our society do...

...E. A. Bescherer Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Technological Change and the Future of the South E. A. Bescherer Introduction I am very grateful for the privilege of participating in the sym­ posium honoring Dr. Gross. There exists an empathic regard for Dr. Gross by many...

..., Eric G. Forbes on Mathe­ matical Cosmography, and D. S. L. Cardwell on Science, Technology and Industry. As these titles indicate, the collection attempts to cover every area in which scientific theorizing or application occurred and which recent historians have attempted to study. The essays range...

... of how relatively recent the critical and systematic historical spirit really is, even though (as Mr. Van Tassel shows) it did not spring fullgrown from the organizing of the American Historical Association. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CUSHING STROUT Colonial Virginia. Vol. I, The Tidewater Period...

... as of them, to trace in more lively terms how this normal young man who emerged from the pattern of seventeenth-century Ireland rose to the height of his unique genius and general fame. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GEORGE MAYHEW The Idea of Coleridge s Criticism. By Richard Harter Fogle. Berke­ ley...

... to each other and his own good sense. CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NORMAN KNOX German Culture in America, 1600-1900. By Henry A. Pochmann. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. xvi, 865. $7.50. This is the awaited companion-piece to the Bibliography of German Culture in America which...

... fessor Bates places a misleading limitation on it. In effect, he promises less than he delivers. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GORDON M. JENSEN ...

... in the literature of the cattle country. TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE EVERETT A. GILLIS ...

... and busy period in Swift s life. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GEORGE MAYHEW Strange Harp, Strange Symphony: The Life of Francis Thompson. By John Walsh. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967. Pp. vii, 298. $8.95. Strange Harp is the type of book a poet might wish for his own biography even if Thompson s...