Browsing by Author "Moon, Suzanne"
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All That is Solid Melts into Air Travel: Environments, Technologies, and the Modern Nation at Trans-Canada Air Lines
Stein, Blair (2019)This dissertation explores how Trans-Canada Air Lines (1937-1965) built, maintained, and subverted what I call the “modern envirotechnical nation” in its public-facing discourse. Euro-Canadian national identity in the ... -
Cross Cultural Medical and Natural Knowledge Exchange on the Mississippi Frontier between Gideon Lincecum and the Choctaw Nation: 1818 to 1833
Maupin, Matthew (2016-12-16)This paper closely investigates the natural and medical exchange of knowledge and its social and historical context between Gideon Lincecum (1793 – 1874) and his Choctaw neighbors in Mississippi between the years 1818 and ... -
Images of Place in American Spaceflight, 1958 - 1974
Reser, Anna (2019)This project is a cultural history of images of place in the American space programs of the 1960s, focused on images of Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where the actual launches of rockets took place, and the Manned Spacecraft ... -
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
Pitaloka, Dyah (2014-05-09)This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ... -
Seismology in India: Colonial Geologists and the Raj, 1880-1910
Tolman, Aja (2018)At the end of the nineteenth century, seismologists were trying to create a ‘universal’ seismology that could be applied worldwide. Applying the observational European techniques in various places across the world challenged ... -
Surfacing Oil: The Oil Industry and Environmental Knowledge in the 20th Century United States
Slane, Cecilia (2023-08-04)In the 20th century United States, the oil industry expanded internationally, extracting in new environments with new technologies. Throughout this period, contemporary environmental knowledge shaped the oil industry’s ... -
Systematic Colonization: The Coproduction of Electrification and Colonialism in New Zealand
Kapoor, Nathan (2019-05-10)The central of argument of Systematic Colonization is that in New Zealand’s transition to electric power is inseparable from its colonization. This dissertation integrates energy history, the history of technology, and New ... -
Technology and Ethical Idealism: A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies
Moon, Suzanne (2007)Technology and Ethical Idealism investigates a pivotal intellectual and political moment in twentieth-century Indonesian history, the establishment of development as both an ideal and a practice. The focus of this study ...