[Themaintainers] readings for infrastructure course

Greg Bloom bloom at openreferral.org
Mon Nov 20 10:05:53 EST 2017


Check out Jo Guldi's Roads to Power, about the relationship between
infrastrcutre and state-building in Britain, although it doesn't meet your
essay-length criteria, but perhaps the first chapter and an excerpt could
do.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Maggard, Alicia <alicia_maggard at brown.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Ann,
>
> This sounds like a fantastic course!  For the "Roads" part of the course,
> you might use Chris Wells's "Fueling the Boom: Gasoline Taxes,
> Invisibility, and the Growth of the American Highway Infrastructure,
> 1919-1956 <https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/99/1/72/854562>" from the
> 2012 *JAH* special issue on oil.  It does a lot in 10 pages!
>
> Best,
> Alicia
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Greene, Ann Norton <
> angreene at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Maintainers,
>> I am teaching a new course next semester about infrastructures and
>> environments, intended as a special topics seminar, so it will be both
>> introductory but with upper level students, and focused on research skills
>> via several short projects.
>> I could really use some recommendations on readings, especially essay
>> length.  At the moment I am planning to do historical case studies (the
>> course is called “Waters, Roads and Wires)
>> and readings so far include Chris Jones’ _Routes of Power_ and Julie
>> Cohn’s _The Grid_.  I have some railroad, energy and mass transit people in
>> Philadelphia to draw on as outside speakers.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ann
>>
>> Ann N. Greene
>> Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies & Assistant Professor (Adj.)
>> Dept of History and Sociology of Science
>> University of Pennsylvania
>>
>> Office Hours Fall 2017
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>>
>> Author, _Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America_
>> (Harvard, 2008)
>>
>>
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