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Willy Ley, the Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science
(2014-05-08)
This dissertation explores the life and career of Willy Ley, a science writer and popularizer of spaceflight technology in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. By following his various “campaigns” ...
Road Power: The Politics of American Highway Development, 1900-1939
(2018)
Road Power uses the development of the American highway system to examine the foundations of the federal state. This thesis argues that the highway bureaucracy accrued power throughout the early twentieth century, providing ...
Shadows in the Cognitive Terrain: Suicide Terrorism and the Role of Ideology
(2016)
Presents a historic review on the role of ideology on suicide terrorism. Reviews research from cognitive psychology and anthropology to describe how ideology influences individual perception and decision making to become ...