Bibliography
The materials listed below are not required texts. Students who wish to further explore the history of science and technology in the twentieth century should study this selective list of books and articles. You should consult with the instructors if you have further questions or interests not represented in this list.
Hugh G. J. Aitken, Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal: Scientific Management in Action, 1908-1915. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960)
Kendall E. Bailes, Technology and Science under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941 (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1978)
Burton Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education In America (New York: Norton, 1976)
Peter J. Bowler. The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
Richard Burkhardt. The Spirit of the System. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977)
Jonathan Coopersmith, The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983)
Hamilton Cravens. The Triumph of Evolution: The Heredity Environment Controversy, 1900-1941. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
David Crook. Darwinism, War, and History: The Debate over the Biology of War from the Origin of Species to the First World War. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991)
Susan J. Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987)
J. Merton England, A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, 1945-1957. (1983)
Loren Graham, ed., Science and the Soviet Social Order. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990)
Loren Graham, Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Thomas Haskell, The Authority Experts: Studies In History and Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984)
David A. Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)
Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (1983)
Thomas P. Hughes, American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. (New York: Viking, 1989)
Daniel J. Kevles. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985)
Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists. (1996, 2nd ed.)
Robert E. Kohler. Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)
Walter McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. (New York: Basic Books, 1985)
Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi. Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989)
David E. Nye, American Technological Sublime (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994)
David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990)
Carroll W. Pursell, ed. Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990)
Leonard S. Reich, The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Terry S. Reynolds, ed. The Engineer in America: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987)
Alex Roland, Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958. (1986)
Micheal Ruse. The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)
Harvey Sapolsky, Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990)
Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Bruce L. R. Smith, American Science Policy since World War II. (Brookings Institute, 1990)
Nancy Leys Stepan. The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991)
Alexander Vucinich, Social Thought in Tsarist Russia: The Quest for a General Science of Society, 1861-1917 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)
Jonathan Weiner. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)
Langdon Winner, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986)
Charters Wynn, Workers,
Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)