Richard R. John
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American historian
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Richard R. John's Degrees
- PhD History University of Chicago
- Masters History University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard R. John, Jr. is an American historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and the state. He is a professor of history and communications at Columbia University.
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Published Works
- Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse by Richard R. John (1995) (238)
- Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 (1990) (126)
- Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s, The Visible Hand after Twenty Years (1997) (113)
- Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010) (100)
- Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787–1835 (1997) (59)
- Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. By Jonathan Taplin. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2017. 321 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, $19.72. ISBN: 978-0-316-27577-4. (2018) (57)
- Making news : the political economy of journalism in Britain and America from the glorious revolution to the internet (2015) (46)
- Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century@@@English Atlantic 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community (1987) (45)
- The computer boys take over: computers, programmers, and the politics of technical expertise (2014) (37)
- Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2005) (32)
- Why Institutions Matter (2008) (31)
- Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age (2000) (29)
- Taking Sabbatarianism Seriously: The Postal System, the Sabbath, and the Transformation of American Political Culture (1990) (27)
- Out of Control (1988) (24)
- Farewell to the "Party Period": Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2004) (18)
- Robber Barons Redux: Antimonopoly Reconsidered (2012) (17)
- Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet (review) (2000) (16)
- Patent Politics: Intellectual Property, the Railroad Industry, and the Problem of Monopoly (2005) (15)
- Who Were the Gilders? And Other Seldom-Asked Questions about Business, Technology, and Political Economy in the United States, 1877–1900 (2009) (15)
- Turner, Beard, Chandler: Progressive Historians (2008) (14)
- Affairs of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party (2003) (14)
- Rethinking the Early (2008) (12)
- Spreading the News (1995) (12)
- Theodore N. Vail and the Civic Origins of Universal Service (1999) (9)
- American Historians and the Concept of the Communications Revolution (1994) (9)
- Managing Big Business: Essays from the Business History Review (1986) (9)
- THE POLITICS OF INNOVATION (1998) (7)
- Network Nation (2015) (6)
- Private Mail Delivery in the United States during the Nineteenth Century: A Sketch (1986) (6)
- Business Historians and the Challenge of Innovation (2011) (6)
- Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector. (1991) (6)
- Rendezvous with Information? Computers and Communications Networks in the United States (2001) (6)
- Review of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008) (6)
- Study on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly (2008) (6)
- Projecting Power Overseas: U.S. Postal Policy and International Standard-Setting at the 1863 Paris Postal Conference (2015) (5)
- Rethinking the Early American State (2008) (5)
- Private Enterprise, Public Good? Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839-1851 (2004) (4)
- Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History (1996) (4)
- The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age (2010) (4)
- Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America (2016) (4)
- From Franklin to Facebook: The Civic Mandate for Communications (2012) (3)
- Introduction. Adversarial Relations? Business and Politics in Twentieth- Century America (2017) (3)
- From Franklin to Facebook (2012) (3)
- The American Postal Network, 1792–1914 (2012) (3)
- Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising (2021) (3)
- In Retrospect: Leonard D. White and the Invention of American Administrative History (1996) (3)
- The State Is Back In: What Now? (2018) (2)
- American Political Development and Political History (2016) (2)
- Point-to-Point: Telecommunications Networks from the Optical Telegraph to the Mobile Telephone (2015) (2)
- Expanding the Realm of Communications (2010) (2)
- The Illusion of the Ordinary. John Lewis Krimmel's Village Tavern and the Democratization of Public Life in the Early Republic (1998) (2)
- History of Universal Service and the Postal Monopoly (2008) (2)
- Bringing Political Economy Back in (2008) (2)
- Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650–1850 by John O’Brien (review) (2017) (2)
- Prophet of Perspective: Thomas K. McCraw (2015) (2)
- Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881 (1987) (2)
- Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian (2019) (1)
- Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism (2016) (1)
- Capital Gains: Business and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2016) (1)
- Putting the United States in North America (2010) (1)
- Communications Networks in the United States from Chappe to Marconi (2013) (1)
- Letters, Telegrams, News (2016) (1)
- Chapter Three. Affairs Of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party (2009) (1)
- A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. (1994) (1)
- Cables, Crises, and the Press: The Geopolitics of the New International Information System in the Americas, 1866–1903 by John A. Britton (review) (2016) (1)
- Postal Networks and American Telecommunications (2006) (1)
- Global Communications (2019) (1)
- Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology (review) (2000) (1)
- Freedom of expression in the digital age: a historian’s perspective (2019) (1)
- Wall Street: A History. By Charles R. Geisst. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 404 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-511512-0.) (1998) (1)
- :Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy.(Harvard Historical Studies, number 144.) (2005) (1)
- Hiland Hall's “Report on Incendiary Publications”: A Forgotten Nineteenth Century Defense of the Constitutional Guarantee of the Freedom of the Press (1997) (1)
- 6. The Talking Telegraph (2010) (0)
- Chapter 5. Beyond the New Deal: Thomas K. McCraw and the Political Economy of Capitalism (2017) (0)
- Epilogue: The Technical Millennium (2010) (0)
- Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America by Brenton J. Malin (review) (2016) (0)
- The Lost World of Bartleby the Ex-Officeholder: Variations on a Venerable Literary Form (1997) (0)
- BHR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1984) (0)
- Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925. By Philip Scranton · Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. xiv + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.50. ISBN 0691029733 (1998) (0)
- PUBLICITY, PROPAGANDA, AND PUBLIC OPINION: (2021) (0)
- American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England. By Katherine Grandjean. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 306. $29.95.) (2017) (0)
- Proprietary Interest: Merchants, Journalists, and Antimonopoly in the 1880s (2017) (0)
- Footloose in Jacksonian America: Robert W. Scott and His Agrarian World. By Thomas D. Clark. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1989. x + 250 pp. $29.95.) (1991) (0)
- The Public Image of the Universal Postal Union in the Anglophone World, 1874-1949 (2018) (0)
- Cutting back the U.S. Postal Service would hurt the lifeblood of democracy (2020) (0)
- Somewhere under the sea (2016) (0)
- 4. The New Postalic Dispensation (2010) (0)
- From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920. By Paul Israel · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. viii + 251 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.50. ISBN 0-8018-4379-0 (1994) (0)
- John Bull, Uncle Sam, Transatlantic Steamships, and the Mail (2020) (0)
- Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America by Jeffrey Sklansky (review) (2019) (0)
- Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America. By Cindy Sondik Aron · New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. viii + 234 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $29.95 (1989) (0)
- Political contestation and the Second Great Divergence (2022) (0)
- 10. Universal Ser vice (2010) (0)
- Book Review: James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins by Jefferson D. Pooley (2017) (0)
- Train of Catastrophes (2013) (0)
- Knowledge for What? (2015) (0)
- Horace Greeley's "New-York Tribune": Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor (review) (2011) (0)
- 11. One Great Medium (2010) (0)
- « Circuits of Victory. L'entreprise Bell et l'engagement du Signal Corps en France » (2020) (0)
- 5. Rich Man’s Mail (2010) (0)
- Kevin Butterfield. The Making of Tocqueville’s America: Law and Association in the Early United States. (2017) (0)
- The Emergence of Giant Enterprise, 1860–1914: American Commercial Enterprise and Extractive Industries. By David O. Whitten. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983. $29.95) (1984) (0)
- Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, and: The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications (review) (2007) (0)
- Slavery in the American Republic: Developing the Federal Government, 1791-1861 by David F. Ericson (review) (2013) (0)
- Somewhere under the sea (2015) (0)
- Government and Law (2015) (0)
- Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America. By Brenton J. Malin (New York, New York University Press, 2014) 308 pp. $79.00 cloth $25.00 paper (2016) (0)
- Royal Mail: The Post Office since 1840 . By M. J. Daunton. London: Athlone Press, 1985. xviii + 388 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $36.50. (1988) (0)
- Aligning Project Success with Organizational Strategy within a Project-Based Organization 1 (2015) (0)
- After Managerial Capitalism (2021) (0)
- Brandeis, Hoover, and the Problem of Fair Trade in Interwar America (2020) (0)
- 9. Gray Wolves (2010) (0)
- David Paul Nickles. Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 144.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. 265. $30.95 (2005) (0)
- Graphic News: How sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism (2022) (0)
- In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion ed. by Robert A. Gross (review) (2019) (0)
- United States (1987) (0)
- Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (review) (2006) (0)
- Cinderella Reigns (2001) (0)
- Five myths about the U.S. Postal Service: It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business (2020) (0)
- Book Review: The Media and Public Life: A History by John Nerone (2017) (0)
- Introduction: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010) (0)
- The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860–1900. By Edwin Gabler · New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988. viii + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $20.00. (1989) (0)
- Editorial Note on Journal (2020) (0)
- Shop Talk: Liberalism, Consumerism, and the American Revolution (2006) (0)
- Book Award Interview (2019) (0)
- Contributors (2004) (0)
- ‘Circuits of Victory’: how the First World War shaped the political economy of the telephone in the United States and France (2019) (0)
- The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a business (2020) (0)
- Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism. By Dana Orenstein (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2019) 326 pp. $105.00 cloth $35.00 paper (2021) (0)
- When Techno-Diplomacy Failed: Walter S. Rogers, the Universal Electrical Communications Union, and the Limitations of the International Telegraph Union as a Global Actor in the 1920s (2020) (0)
- Handbook of Administrative History (review) (1999) (0)
- Remembering Mcluhan@@@Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message. (1990) (0)
- Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism (2021) (0)
- Contextualizing the Corporation (2000) (0)
- Principle and Interest. Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. By Herbert E. Sloan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp viii, 377. $4500 (1997) (0)
- FAMILY AND GROUP DAY CARE CENTERS (2011) (0)
- Telecommunications (2008) (0)
- NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES (2013) (0)
- Postmasters and Postoffices of the United States, 1782-1811. (1996) (0)
- From Political Economy to Civil Society: Arthur W. Page, Corporate Philanthropy, and the Reframing of the Past in Post-New Deal America (2015) (0)
- Chronology of American Telecommunications (2010) (0)
- Martin Collins. A Telephone for the World: Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age. (2019) (0)
- Every Stamp Tells a Story (2014) (0)
- Private Enterprise, Public Good? (2004) (0)
- Europe (1990) (0)
- The Historical Role of Communications Networks: A Conversation (2021) (0)
- The First 25 Years in Space: A Symposium . Edited by Allan A. Needel. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. xii + 152 pp. Index. $12.50.) (1984) (0)
- Elongating the Progressive Era (2007) (0)
- Like Father, Like Son: The Not-So-Strange Career of John C. Calhoun (1995) (0)
- Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America . Edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 358. $90.00, cloth; $30.00, paper. (2012) (0)
- Communications Networks in the United States (2012) (0)
- French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (review) (2000) (0)
- Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. By Georg Leidenberger. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 0-875-80356-3 (2007) (0)
- The Culture of Capitalism The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. By Joyce Appleby. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. xii + 494 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-393-06894-8 (2012) (0)
- Eben Norton Horsford, the Northmen, and the Founding of Massachusetts (1998) (0)
- Andrew Pettegree: The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (2017) (0)
- Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age (2018) (0)
- Farewell to the 'Period Party': Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2004) (0)
- 8. Second Nature (2010) (0)
- Markets, Morality, and the Media: The Election of 1884 and the Iconography of Progressivism (2015) (0)
- BHR volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1987) (0)
- 1. Making a Neighborhood of a Nation (2010) (0)
- United States (1985) (0)
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