Narratives and Spaces [Paperback]

David E. Nye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0231111975 | ISBN-13: 978-0231111973 0

Nye analyzes the transformation of the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls into tourist sites, the history of light shows at world's fairs, the New Deal programs designed to provide electricity to rural areas, and the Apollo 11 moon to reveal how the spaces we live in and the technology we use are integral to American identity , and a key part of American self-representation. Nye also turns his attention to the Internet, where technology has not simply transformed space, but created a whole new kind of space, and with it, new stories.

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[A] highly original, wide-ranging, provocative, and elegantly written exploration of unexpected cultural dimensions of technology and history. -- Journal of Social History

[A] highly original, wide-ranging, provocative, and elegantly written exploration of unexpected cultural dimensions of technology and history. -- Review

About the Author

David E. Nye is professor of American history at Odense University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Columbia University Press (March 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231111975
• ISBN-13: 978-0231111973
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,391,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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David E. Nye's publications focus on technology and American society. He was born in Boston, and educated at Amherst College and the University of Minnesota. He has taught in both the United States and Europe, and he has lectured in every western European country. Author or editor of 20 books, he has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Leverhulme Foundation, and national research councils in Denmark and Holland. He has appeared on NOVA, the BBC, and Danish television, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge, Leeds, Harvard, MIT, Warwick, Oviedo, and Notre Dame. In 2005 he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the lifetime achievement award and highest honor of the Society for the History of Technoloy.