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      Narratives And Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture

      David E. Nye

      This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is…

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      Narratives And Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture

      David E. Nye

      This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is…

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      Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940

      David E. Nye

      Using Muncie, Indiana, as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture.

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      American Technological Sublime

      David E. Nye

      This text examines the continuing appeal of the technological sublime as a key to America’s history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms and technological achievements that people have…

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      Consuming Power: Social History of American Energies

      David E. Nye

      Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.

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      America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings

      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.

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      Seven Sublimes

      David E. Nye

      A reconception of the sublime to include experiences of disaster, war, outer space, virtual reality, and the Anthropocene.

      We experience the sublime-overwhelming amazement and exhilaration-in at least seven different forms…

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      Technology Matters: Questions to Live with

      David E. Nye

      Includes essays by an Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains. This work tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology using historical…

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      Conflicted American Landscapes

      David E. Nye

      Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict –

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      Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture

      David E. Nye

      This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is…

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      Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930

      David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

      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 most…

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      American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800-1920

      David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

      How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world’s most dazzling and glamorous cities.

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      American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800-1920

      David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

      How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world’s most dazzling and glamorous cities.

      Illuminated fetes and civic celebrations…

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      America’s Assembly Line

      David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

      From the Model T to today’s lean manufacturing : the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.

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      The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction

      Robert S. Emmett (Visiting Assistant Professor, Roanoke College),David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)

      A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.

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