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Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a …
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity-for good or …
A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry's quest to connect everything-and who hoped for something better.When …
In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody-both works of art and …
The Republic of Color delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial …
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, …
If the twentieth century saw the rise of "e;Big Science,"e; then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history …
In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and …
Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "e;engineering pope"e; Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity …
In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the …