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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This dissertation presents a history of the community of nuclear arms control experts in the United States during the middle and later years of the Cold War, the age of thermonuclear ballistic missiles. Arms control experts ...
Institutes for innovation : the emergence of academic-industrial cooperation and narratives of progress in the early 20th century
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Early 20th century America is a critical context for understanding industrial innovation. Departing from a focus on innovation itself as manifested through the creation of new products and consumer opportunities, this ...
The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
"The Soviet Farm Complex" is a history of food, farming and the environment in the postwar Soviet Union. It tells the story of how different technical and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside ...
Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic safety technology and policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Modern U.S. traffic safety policy is largely guided by three overarching principles that have influenced governments, industry, and community and citizen activists since the 1940s. The terms, education, engineering, and ...
Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The rhetoric and apparatus of national security have played critical roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on ...
Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa'
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation examines how Africa's place in the world is negotiated in different forms of material engagement with Dutch Wax cloth--designing, advertising, selling, buying, and tailoring-along the cloth's trajectory ...
The State Machine : politics, ideology, and computation in Chile, 1964-1973
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This dissertation argues that Chile's history of computing is tightly interwoven with the history of the Chilean state. It begins by documenting the government use of mechanical tabulating machines during the 1920s and ...
Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace ...
From enthusiasm to practice : users, systems, and technology in high-end audio
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This is a story about technology, users, and music. It is about an approach to the design, manipulation, and arrangement of technologies in small-scale systems to achieve particular aesthetic goals - goals that are at once ...
Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Long extinct animals have a powerful hold on the American popular imagination. Dinosaurs, in particular, have been iconic and pervasive representatives of a planetary past for much of the twentieth century. While natural ...