David E. Nye Books
Narratives And Spaces
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians...
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Narratives And Spaces
1. Constructing Nature: Niagara Falls And The Grand Canyon -- 2. Electrifying The American West, 1880-1940 -- 3. Domestic Landscape: Wright Morris's The Home Place -- 4. Reconstructing Rural Space:...
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America'S Assembly Line
By David E. Nye
The Mechanized Assembly Line Was Invented In 1913 And Has Been In Continuous Operation Ever Since. It Is The Most Familiar Form Of Mass Production. Both Praised As A Boon To Workers And Condemned F...
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Image Worlds: Corporate Identities At General Electric, 1890-1930
By David E. Nye, Nye, David E., 1946-
By viewing the corporation as a communicator, Image Worlds links the histories of labor, business, consumption, engineering, and photography, providing a new perspective on one of the largest and m...
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Electrifying America: Social Meanings Of A New Technology, 1880-1940
By David E. Nye
How Did Electricity Enter Everyday Life In America? Using Muncie, Indiana--the Lynds' Now Iconic Middletown--as A Touchstone, David Nye Explores How Electricity Seeped Into And Redefined American C...
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American Technological Sublime
By David E. Nye
American Technological Sublime is a study of the politics of perception in industrial society. Arranged chronologically, it suggests that the sublime itself has a history - that sublime experiences...
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Consuming Power: A Social History Of American Energies
By David E. Nye
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that th...
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America As Second Creation: Technology And Narratives Of New Beginnings
By David E. Nye
An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.After 1776, the former American colonies began to rei...
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Technology Matters: Questions To Live With
Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from...
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When The Lights Went Out: A History Of Blackouts In America
By David E. Nye
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? Preparing for air attack in World War II? In the Northeast in 1965, when the power failed f...
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