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Master Mechanics and 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.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 -- Dejà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies." 
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