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Projects, management, and protean times : engineering enterprise in the United States, 1870-1960
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
In this dissertation, I trace methods for organizing skilled workers engaged in creative, limited-term projects in the United States between the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Examining eras of system building in technical ...
Sustainable development and comprehensive capital : The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The general post-Soviet decline of the states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) mirrors specific declines in the robustness of these states' stocks of financial, physical, ...
The expertise of germs : practice, language and authority in American bacteriology, 1899-1924
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis traces the development of American bacteriology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. While bacteriology experienced a period of rapid growth, an enduring disciplinary anxiety equally characterized ...
Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)