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“robert kargon”

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  • World's Fairs on the Eve of War

    Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942

    by Robert Kargon, Morris Fraser Low, Arthur Molella, Karen Ann Fiss ...
    Since the first world's fair in London in 1851, at the dawn of the era of industrialization, international expositions served as ideal platforms for rival nations to showcase their advancements in design, architecture, science and technology, industry, and politics. Before the outbreak of World War II, countries competing for leadership on the world stage waged a different kind of war—with ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science

    by Robert H. Kargon ...
    “I do not consider myself to be Robert Millikan’s biographer. This book is not a full record of Millikan’s life or even of his scientific career. It is an essay, very selective, on themes that are illustrated and illuminated by Millikan’s life in American science. It is, as well, a portrait of the development of a scientist...Robert Millikan was among the most famous of American scientists; to the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Urban Modernity

    Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

    by Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low ...
    How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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  • Practicing Utopia

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    by Rosemary Wakeman ...
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  • Concrete and Culture

    A Material History

    by Adrian Forty ...
    Despite its ancient Roman origins, concrete is considered the ultimate modern material, used everywhere in construction today: the equivalent of three tonnes of concrete per person on the planet is produced each year. Used in our pavements, roads, tunnels and walls, concrete surrounds us wherever we go and polarizes opinion, provoking intense loathing in some and fervent passion in others.Concrete ... Read more

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  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edited by Peggy Deamer ...
    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative ... Read more

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  • Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

    Creating the modern townscape

    Edited by John Pendlebury, Erdem Erten, Larkham Peter ...
    The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period ... Read more

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  • Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities

    Edited by David Gordon ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide – in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred. And this, surely, is reason enough for a book devoted to the planning and development of capital cities in the twentieth century.However, the focus here is not only on recently created capitals. Indeed, the case ... Read more

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  • Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs

    Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915

    Edited by Ethan Robey, David Raizman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851–1915 introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and awider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meaningsof design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing nationalism, imperialism,expanding trade and the emergence of a consumer ... Read more

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  • From Bauhaus to Our House

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... Read more

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  • Einstein

    His Life and Universe

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.Based on newly released ... Read more

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