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History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

Hospitals – Law and Science

[Bibliography main page] Hospitals
SUBJECT	CITATION
Hospitals	Boychuk, Terry. “The Hospitals of Canada and the United States: From the Beginning to 1965.” DAI 54/12 (1994): 4603-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1994)
Hospitals	Joyce, Kathleen M. “Science and the Saints: American Catholics and Health Care, 1880-1930.” DAI 56/05 (1995): 1947-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1995)
HOSPITALS	McCauley, Bernadette. Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City. 146pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
HOSPITALS	Renshaw, Michelle. Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920. (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture). 312pp. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Hospitals	Rosenberg, Charles E. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System. 437pp. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
HOSPITALS	Schurr, Nancy. “Inside the Confederate Hospital: Community and Conflict during the Civil War.” DAI 66/01 (2005): 314-A. (Doct. diss., University of Tennessee, 2004)
HOSPITALS: Institutional	Aufses, Arthur and Barbara Niss. This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. 495pp. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Hospitals: Institutional	Drachman, Virginia G. Hospital with a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital, 1862-1969. 258pp. Ithaca, N.Y. / London: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Hospitals: Institutional	Gerteis, Margaret. “The Massachusetts General Hospital, 1810-1865: An Essay on the Political Construction of Social Responsibility during New England’s Early Industrialization.” DAI 46/03 (1986): 776-A. (Doct. diss., Tufts University, 1985)
HOSPITALS: Institutional	Green, Carol Cranmer. Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital. 200pp. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
Hospitals: Institutional	Hunt, Marion. “From Childsaving to Pediatrics: A Case Study of Women’s Role in the Development of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, 1879-1925.” DAI 54/02 (1993): 657-A. (Doct. diss., Washington University, 1992)
Hospitals: Institutional	Saxon, Bruce. “The Problem of Planning: Springfield Hospital and the Development of the U.S. Health Care System, 1890-1980.” DAI 57/10 (1997): 4421-A. (Doct. diss., University of Massachusetts, 1996)
Hospitals: Massachusetts	Vogel, Morris J. The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston, 1870-1930. 172pp. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Hospitals: New York	Kisacky, Jeanne Susan. “An Architecture of Light and Air: Theories of Hygiene and the Building of the New York Hospital, 1771-1932.” DAI 60/09 (2000): 3494-A. (Doct. diss., Cornell University, 1999)
Hospitals: New York	Rosner, David. A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885-1915. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History). 234pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
HOSPITALS: Virginia	Calcutt, Rebecca Barbour. Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals. 224pp. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 2005.
[Bibliography main page] Ichthyology and Pisciculture
SUBJECT	CITATION
Ichthyology and pisciculture: Institutional	Hobart, W.L., editor. Baird’s Legacy: The History and Accomplishments of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, 1871-1996. (NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-18). 48pp. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1996.
[Bibliography main page] Industrial Research
SUBJECT	CITATION
Industrial research	Knoedler, Janet Therese. “Backward Linkages to Industrial Research in Steel, 1870-1930.” DAI 53/03 (1992): 891-A. (Doct. diss., University of Tennessee, 1991)
Industrial research: Institutional	Graham, Margaret B. and Bettye H. Pruitt. R & D for Industry: A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa. 645pp. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Industrial research: Institutional	Reich, Leonard. The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926. 309pp. Cambridge / London / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
[Bibliography main page] Industrial Revolution
SUBJECT	CITATION
Industrial revolution	Hindle, Brooke and Steven Lubar. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. 309pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.
Industrial revolution	Teich, Mikulas and Roy Porter, editors. The Industrial Revolution in National Context: Europe and the USA. 413 pp. Cambridge, [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Industrial revolution: Exhibitions	Lubar, Steven D. Engines of Change: An Exhibition on the American Industrial Revolution at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. 69pp. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1986.
Industrial revolution: Massachusetts	Faler, Paul G. Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860. 267pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981.
Industrial revolution: Rhode Island	Kulik, Gary B. “The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1672-1829.” DAI 41/12 (1981): 5221-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1980)
[Bibliography main page] Industry and Business
SUBJECT	CITATION
Industry and business	Aldrich, Mark. Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939. (Studies in industry and society; 13). 415 pp. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1997.
Industry and business	Cochran, Thomas C. Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America. 179pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Industry and business	Folsom, Michael Brewster and Stephen D. Lubar, editors. The Philosophy of Manufactures: Early Debates over Industrialization in the United States. 512pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982.
Industry and business	George, Peter. The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth since 1870. 242pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS	Green, Venus. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. 370pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Industry and business	Kraft, James P. Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950. (Studies in industry and society; 9). 255pp. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Industry and business	Latham, Andrew. “From the ‘armoury system’ to ‘agile manufacturing’: Industrial Divides in the History of American Arms Production.” DAI 58/07 (1998): 2832-A. (Doct. diss., York University (Canada), 1997)
Industry and business	Licht, Walter. Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. (American moment). 219 pp. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Industry and business	Magee, Gary Bryan. Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914. (Cambridge studies in modern economic history; 4). 293pp. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, c1997.
Industry and business	Misa, Thomas J. A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925. (Studies in the History of Technology). 367pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS	Mosher, Anne E. Capital’s Utopia: The Steel Industry’s Search for Urban Order at Vandergrift, 1854-1916. 249pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS	Peskin, Lawrence A. Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia). 294pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Industry and business	Peskin, Lawrence A. “To ‘Encourage and Protect’ American Manufactures: The Intellectual Origins of Industrialization, 1763-1830.” DAI 59/10 (1999): 3941-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1998)
Industry and business	Scranton, Philip. Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925. 415pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1997.
Industry and business	Teo, Albert Chu Ying. “Innovation and Firm Longevity: The Experience of the American Auto Makers, 1880 to 1982.” DAI 56/05 (1995): 1884-A. (Doct. diss, University of California, Berkeley, 1994)
Industry and business	Tweedale, Geoffrey. Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830-1930. 296pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Field, Jacqueline, Marjorie Senechal, and Madelyn Shaw. American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts. 326pp Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. (On the silk industry)
Industry and business: Artifacts, instruments, substances	Haines, Charles M. “The Industrialization of Wood: The Transformation of a Material.” DAI 52/01 (1991): 267-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1990)
Industry and business: Biographical	Eggert, Gerald C. Making Iron on the Bald Eagle: Roland Curtin’s Ironworks and Workers Community. 189pp. University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press, 1999.
Industry and business: Biographical	Yates, W. Ross. Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer. 413pp. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press; London / Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1987.
Industry and business: Connecticut	Galer, Gregory, Robert Gordon, and Frances Kemmish. Connecticut’s Ames Iron Works: Family, Community, Nature, and Innovation in an Enterprise of the Early American Republic. (Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Transactions 54, pp.83-194). [112pp.]. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Industry and business: Connecticut	Maynard, Preston and Marjorie B. Noyes, editors. Carriages and Clocks, Corsets and Locks: The Rise and Fall of an Industrial City – New Haven, Connecticut. A Project of the New Haven Preservation Trust. 223pp. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2004.
Industry and business: Georgia	Davis, Robert Scott. Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912. 198pp. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c1998.
Industry and business: Institutional	Blackford, Mansel G. and K. Austin Kerr. BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870-1995. (Historical perspectives on business enterprise series). 507 pp. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1996.
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS: Institutional	Goodwin, Jason. Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City. 320pp. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Industry and business: Institutional	Smith, George David. From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformation of Alcoa, 1888-1986. 554pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Industry and business: Massachusetts	Gross, Laurence F. The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, new ser., 15). 279pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Industry and business: New Jersey	Hunter, Richard William. “Patterns of Mill Siting and Materials Processing: A Historical Geography of Water-Powered Industry in Central New Jersey.” DAI 60/10 (2000): 3751-A. (Doct. diss., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1999)
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS: Pennsylvania	Dawson, Andrew. Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers: Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890. (Modern Economic and Social History Series). 302pp. Aldershot, Hants., England / Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2004.
Industry and business: Vermont	Yale, Allen Rice, Jr. “Ingenious and Enterprising Mechanics: A Case Study of Industrialization in Rural Vermont, 1815-1900.” DAI 56/09 (1996): 3717-A. (Doct. diss, University of Connecticut, 1995)
Industry and business: West Virginia	Shackel, Paul A. Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era. (Contributions to global historical archaeology). 217pp. New York: Plenum Press, c1996.
[Bibliography main page] Industry, Science, and Technology
SUBJECT	CITATION
Industry, science, and technology	Bahr, Betsy W. “New England Mill Engineering: Rationalization and Reform in Textile Mill Design, 1790-1920.” DAI 49/04 (1988): 929-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1987)
Industry, science, and technology	Hoke, Donald R. “Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector.” DAI 45/05 (1984): 1499-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1984)
Industry, science, and technology	Hoke, Donald R. Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector. 345pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Industry, science, and technology	Hounshell, David A. “From the American System to Mass Production: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, 1850-1920.” DAI 39/12 (1979): 7484-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1978)
Industry, science, and technology	Hounshell, David A. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. (Studies in Industry and Society, no. 4). 411pp. Baltimore / London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Industry, science, and technology	Hunter, Louis C. A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Vol. I: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. 606pp. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1980.
Industry, science, and technology	Hunter, Louis C. A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume II: Steam Power. 732pp. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia for Hagley Museum and Library, 1985.
Industry, science, and technology	Hunter, Louis C. and Lynwood Bryant. A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Vol. 3: The Transmission of Power. 596pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.
Industry, science, and technology	Jeremy, David J. Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Machines: Essays on the Early Anglo-American Textile Industries, 1770-1840s. (Variorum collected studies series; CS608). 1 volume (various pagings). Aldershot; Brookfield, USA: Ashgate, 1998.
Industry, science, and technology	Jeremy, David J. Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition of his “Cotton Manufacture” (1840), and the Justitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs. (Memoirs of American Philosophical Society, vol. 189). 384pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990.
Industry, science, and technology	Jeremy, David J. Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textiles Technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s. 384pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981.
Industry, science, and technology	Lucier, Paul. “Scientists and Swindlers: Coal, Oil, and Scientific Consulting in the American Industrial Revolution, 1830-1870.” DAI 54/12 (1994): 4570-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1994)
Industry, science, and technology	Mayr, Otto and Robert C. Post, editors. Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures. Papers from a symposium. 236pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
Industry, science, and technology	Meyer, David R. Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum-America. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). 311pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Industry, science, and technology	Misa, Thomas J. “Science, Technology, and Industrial Structure: Steelmaking in America, 1870-1925.” DAI 48/09 (1988): 2438-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1987)
Industry, science, and technology	Murmann, Johann Peter. “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage in the Synthetic Dye Industry, 1850-1914: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States.” DAI 59/05 (1998): 1715-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1998)
Industry, science, and technology	Trescott, Martha Moore. The Rise of the American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880-1910: Studies in the American Technological Environment. 391pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Industry, science, and technology	Wilde, Mark W. “Industrialization of Food Processing in the United States, 1860-1960.” DAI 50/04 (1989): 1070-A. (Doct. diss., University of Delaware, 1988)
Industry, science, and technology: Biographical	Carlson, W. Bernard. “Invention, Science, and Business: The Professional Career of Elihu Thomson, 1870-1900.” DAI 46/01 (1985): 248-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1984)
Industry, science, and technology: Biographical	Carlson, W. Bernard. Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900. 377pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Industry, science, and technology: Biographical	Tucker, Barbara M. Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry 1790-1860. 268pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
INDUSTRY, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY: Institutional	Kinnane, Adrian. DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to Miracles of Science. 268pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Industry, science, and technology: Louisiana	Heitmann, John Alfred. “Scientific and Technological Change in the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830-1910.” DAI 44/04 (1983): 1183-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1983)
Industry, science, and technology: Louisiana	Heitmann, John Alfred. The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1830-1910. 298pp. Baton Rouge / London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
[Bibliography main page] Information Access (Organizations, Tools, Etc.)
SUBJECT	CITATION
Information access (organizations, tools, etc.)	Blake, John, editor. Centenary of INDEX MEDICUS: 1879-1979. (NIH Publication no. 80-2068). 115pp. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office; National Library of Medicine, 1980.
Information access (organizations, tools, etc.)	Mount, Ellis, editor. One Hundred Years of Sci-Tech Libraries: A Brief History. 193pp. Binghampton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, Inc., 1988. (Originally published in Science and Technology Libraries 8, no. 1 [Fall 1987])
Information access (organizations, tools, etc.): Biographical	Chapman, Carleton B. Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America’s Coming of Age. 420pp. Boston, Mass.: Boston Medical Library, in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1994.
[Bibliography main page] Law and Science
SUBJECT	CITATION
Law and science	Essig, Mark Regan. “Science and Sensation: Poison Murder and Forensic Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America.” DAI 61/01 (2000): 324-A. (Doct. diss., Cornell University, 2000)
LAW AND SCIENCE	Golan, Tal. Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America. 325pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Law and science	Golan, Tal. “Scientific Expert Testimony in Anglo-American Courts, 1782-1923.” DAI 59/03 (1998): 938-A (Doct. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1997)
Law and science	Mohr, James C. Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America. 319pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.