Howard P. Segal
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American historian
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Howard P. Segal's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Howard Paul Segal was an American historian who was a professor of history at the University of Maine. Specializing in the history of American technology and American utopianism, he wrote well over 200 articles and authored or edited eight books including Technology and Utopia, Technology, Pessimism, and Post-Modernism ; Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America; Utopias: A Brief History;Technology in America ; Technological Utopianism in American Culture; and Recasting the Machine Age.
Howard P. Segal's Published Works
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- Utopian Thought in the Western World (1979) (415)
- Technological Utopianism in American Culture (1985) (145)
- Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier (1979) (110)
- Chicago's White City of 1893@@@Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 (1977) (95)
- Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 (1977) (69)
- Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America by Howard P. Segal (1994) (63)
- Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988 (1990) (59)
- Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (1984) (58)
- Technology in America: A Brief History (1991) (57)
- Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to Nixon (1976) (44)
- TVA's Public Planning: The Vision, the Reality (1990) (40)
- Technology, pessimism, and postmodernism (1997) (35)
- Technological Utopianism in American Culture. (1986) (32)
- The Pattern of Expectation, 1644-2001 (1980) (30)
- A Disciplined Geography: Aviation, Science, and the Cold War in Northern Canada, 1945–1960 (2009) (28)
- Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities (2012) (27)
- Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller@@@The Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller: A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings (1983) (16)
- Technology in America (1998) (15)
- Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries (2005) (15)
- Salman Rushdie and the sea of stories: a not-so-simple fable about creativity. (1994) (11)
- The Cultural Contradictions of High Tech: Or the Many Ironies of Contemporary Technological Optimism (1994) (10)
- Practical Utopias: America as Techno-Fix Nation (2017) (10)
- Leo Marx's "Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation@@@"Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation (1977) (10)
- Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929 (1989) (9)
- Victor and victim (2001) (8)
- Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (2009) (7)
- Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City (1994) (7)
- Chapter II: The American Ideology of Technological Progress: Historical Perspectives (1996) (7)
- Engineering Education at Penn State: A Century in the Land-Grant Tradition (1981) (6)
- Computers and Museums: Problems and Opportunities of Display and Interpretation@@@The Computer Museum, Boston@@@Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (1990) (5)
- Assessing retrospective technology assessment: A review of the literature (1982) (5)
- Irreverent Pilgrims: Melville, Browne, and Mark Twain in the Holy Land (1975) (4)
- Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space. By De Witt Douglas Kilgore. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 294 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8122-3719-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1847-7.) (2004) (4)
- Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism: Introduction (1994) (4)
- Shifting gears : technology, literature, culture in modernist America (1988) (3)
- Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and the American Ideology of Progress Through Technology (1989) (3)
- The quotable Henry Ford (2013) (2)
- The rise of the American electrochemicals industry, 1880-1910 : studies in the American technological environment (1982) (2)
- A multidisciplinary approach to improving the understanding of engineering and technology for nonengineering students (1993) (2)
- The Bee-Hive Newspaper and British Working Class Attitudes toward the American Civil War (2013) (2)
- David E. Nye. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press. 1994. Pp. xx, 362. $35.00 (1996) (2)
- American College and University Presidents: Four Biographical Studies (1982) (2)
- Back to the future from 1888 (2001) (2)
- Technology, History, and Culture: An Appreciation of Melvin Kranzberg (1998) (2)
- Cultural reflections (2005) (2)
- The Several Ironies of Technological Literacy (1989) (2)
- Rethinking American Utopianism@@@All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914.@@@Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893. (1992) (1)
- Establishing a dental geriatric curriculum. (1983) (1)
- High Tech's False Nostalgia (1988) (1)
- Book Review:Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776-1860 David Freeman Hawke (1990) (1)
- Reassessing Technology and Culture@@@Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric@@@Mechanical Metamorphosis: Technological Change in Revolutionary America@@@Technological Utopianism in American Culture (1986) (1)
- Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930. West-port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xix, 291. Table, illustrations. $23.95 (U.S.) (1983) (1)
- Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth-Century New England: Allmendinger, David F., Jr.: New York: St. Martin's Press 160 pp., Publication Date: February 7, 1975 (1975) (1)
- Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. Sociology of Sciences: A Yearbook, vol. XVII (1999) (1)
- Technological heaven (1998) (1)
- Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric. By S.J. John M. Staudenmaier (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. xxvii + 282 pp. $35.00.) (1986) (1)
- Eighteenth-Century American Utopianism: From the Potential to the Probable (2000) (1)
- Expecting the unexpected (1996) (1)
- Space and the American Imagination (review) (2000) (1)
- Economic and Technological Innovation in Maine before the Twentieth Century: Complex, Uneven, but Pervasive and Important (2014) (1)
- The policy intellectual (1997) (0)
- Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (review) (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews: Universalism in America: A Documentary History, edited by Ernest Cassara (1973) (0)
- Communications and the Power to Communicate (2018) (0)
- Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century (review) (2008) (0)
- Nineteenth-Century Industrializing Maine: The Way Life Really Was: Paul Rivard’s Made in Maine (2008) (0)
- From durable to disposable (1996) (0)
- The Nature of Utopias (2013) (0)
- American Technology and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century (2018) (0)
- From Gentleman's Club to Professional Body: The Evolution of the History Department in the United States, 1940–1980. By William Palmer. (Charleston, S.C.: Booksurge, 2008. Pp. 326. $18.99.) (2010) (0)
- 3 R. Buckminster Fuller (2009) (0)
- The American Enlightenment (1978) (0)
- Book Review: Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940, by Howard P. Segal (1989) (0)
- Youth and old age in America (1979) (0)
- Lusting for the Gratifications of Technology@@@Technological Utopianism in American Culture. (1986) (0)
- Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: A Technological Utopia in Retrospect (2009) (0)
- Young West: The Psyche of Technological Utopianism (1977) (0)
- Review: Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier by James Schwoch (2019) (0)
- From Where I Sit: A Cocktail for Violence (2014) (0)
- Young America and Individual Opportunity: 1800 to the 1830s (2018) (0)
- TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area Michael J. McDonald John Muldowny (1985) (0)
- Tocqueville and the Problem of Social Change: A Reconsideration (1978) (0)
- The Marginalization of Faculty and the Quantification of Educational Policy: Lessons from My Many Years on Faculty Senates (2019) (0)
- Crushed by the Frankenstein monster (2000) (0)
- Inventors of the Promised Land (review) (2013) (0)
- Systematizing Workers and the Workplace (2018) (0)
- The third culture: C.P. Snow revisited (1996) (0)
- Restoring Grassroots Democracy in the Clinton‐Gore Administration: Sheldon Hackney's “National Conversation” (2010) (0)
- The American Utopias and Utopians and Their Critics (2013) (0)
- American Technology and Society: Historical Perspectives. Course Syllabus. (1981) (0)
- The European Utopias and Utopians and Their Critics (2013) (0)
- Review of Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire (2006) (0)
- The Variety of Utopias (2013) (0)
- A Historical Dictionary of American Industrial Language. Ed. by William H. Mulligan, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xiv + 332 pp. $55.00.) (1990) (0)
- Taming the world? (2003) (0)
- Technology: Democracy's New Foe? (1988) (0)
- Appropriate Visions: In Defense of Utopianism Today. (1984) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950 Gregory J. Downey (2003) (0)
- ENVIRONMENT: Down in the Valley: David Lilienthal's TVA: Democracy on the March (2016) (0)
- Personal views of an impersonal world (1999) (0)
- If the Shoe Fits, Sell it@@@The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States. (1990) (0)
- Contributors to this Issue (1957) (0)
- Manufacturing America: 1607 to 1800 (2018) (0)
- Innovations to stir young minds (2000) (0)
- Reviews of Books:America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings David E. Nye (2004) (0)
- Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. By Ronald C. Tobey · Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 334 pp. Photographs, illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20421–2 (1997) (0)
- The Future of Utopias and Utopianism (2013) (0)
- Expressing the Self: Individualism in an Era of Plenty, from about 1950 to the late 1960s (2018) (0)
- Growing Expectations of Realizing Utopia in the United States and Europe (2013) (0)
- American Nationalism: A People and Common Material Experience, late 1830s to 1870s (2018) (0)
- Technology as a Social Solution: World War II and the Aftermath (2018) (0)
- “Little Plants in the Country”: Henry Ford's Village Industries and the Beginning of Decentralized Technology in Modern America (1988) (0)
- The Resurgence of Utopianism (2013) (0)
- A dark side of automation (2001) (0)
- Systematizing the Fabric of American Life: The 1870s to the 1920s (2018) (0)
- Solutions beyond systems analysis (2010) (0)
- The Authority of Experts: Studies in History and Theory@@@TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy (1986) (0)
- Technology as a Social Solution: The 1920s to the 1950s (2018) (0)
- The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England@@@The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England (1978) (0)
- "Made in Maine": A Professor's Perspective (1990) (0)
- Getting Bucky Fuller Right: Loretta Lorance, Becoming Bucky Fuller (2010) (0)
- Recommended Books (2009) (0)
- Private and Public: Technology and Individual Autonomy from the Later 1960s to the 1990s (2018) (0)
- Jeffrey L. Meikle. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925–1939. (American Civilization Series.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1979. Pp. xiv, 249. $17.50 (1980) (0)
- The Great American Hall of Wonders, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 15 July 2011–8 January 2012 (2014) (0)
- Technology everywhere (1995) (0)
- Public and Private: Technology as a Social Question from the Later 1960s to the 1990s (2018) (0)
- Back to the Future: Envisioning The University Of Maine’s Next Decades from the Perspective of the 1965 Centennial Celebration (2016) (0)
- Pioneer in the Hardware of Culture: Roger Burlingame’s March of the Iron Men and Engines of Democracy (2009) (0)
- Rewiring the History of the Telegraph and the Telephone (2014) (0)
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