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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Glen Scott, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century
  • Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction
  • A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century
  • The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps
  • The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors
  • Invaders with Ph. D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s
  • Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb
  • Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA
  • Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics?
  • America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier
  • Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America
  • Déjà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."