Browsing by Author "Lucsko, David"

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Building Nonalignment: Technological Interchange and India’s Third Five-Year Plan (1961-1966)

Logan, William (2016-07-27)

The role of ideology in the modernization of India has been closely studied. Less well understood is the role that technological knowledge and artifacts played. This dissertation studies the role of technology in the Indian ...

The Clash of the Scientific and Official Minds and the Making of the Chernobyl Disaster

Allison, Russell (2023-04-17) ETD File Embargoed

Abstract The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster in terms of ecological devastation and the loss of human life. The accident’s consequences reached far beyond the initial ...

The Forgotten Fountain Pen: The historical significance of the fountain pen in twentieth-century American society

Busby, Charles (2017-04-17)

This thesis addresses the adoption, popularity, decline, and revival of the fountain pen in American culture and society over the twentieth century. It examines how the World Wars and Great Depression interacted to influence ...

From Rolling Bungalows to Mobile Mansions: The Origins of America’s Obsession with the Recreational Vehicle

Burel, David (2017-04-19)

This dissertation studies the rise of the recreational vehicle technology in America. It argues that recreational automobility required the achievement of mass automobility and long distance roads to become a viable travel ...

Futureproof: Computer Enthusiasts and the PC (R)evolution

Wallace, Steven (2024-05-02) ETD File Embargoed

This project is a study of the establishment of the ‘PC Master Race’ identity within the larger personal computer/desktop computer enthusiast and gamer communities. This group (and its associated ideology) is traceable ...

Globalization and the Auto Industry in the U.S. South

Mohr, John (2018-07-19)

Since the early 1980s, numerous foreign automakers have built plants to manufacture motor vehicles in the American South. Mercedes, Honda, and Hyundai in Alabama and Kia Motors in Georgia are some examples of this ...

Mental Models and Institutional Change in the U.S. Air Force from the Cold War through the Gulf War

Swartzer, Andrew (2020-07-16) ETD File Embargoed

Following more than twenty years of debate, and after a bitter fight for independence from the Army, the United States Air Force was established as separate military service on September 18, 1947. The following spring, ...

Private Paths to Protecting Places: The Creation of a Conservation Infrastructure in the American South Since 1889

Eklund, Christopher (2015-05-08)

This dissertation investigates changes in the ways individuals protected private land in the twentieth century American South. In contrast with iconic parks like Yellowstone or the heavily industrialized lands of the ...

Wild by Design The Technological Construction of Authenticity, Wilderness, and Nature in America's National Parks, 1860-1945

Shafer, Jonathan M. (2019-05-16)

This dissertation explores the origins of American national park experiences. It explores how several social groups attempted to make the national parks conform to their expectations and desires using political power, ...