[Themaintainers] readings for infrastructure course

[James Risk]

Hi Ann,

I took a graduate level course with Ann Johnson on nationbuidling a few
years ago. Her syllabus was very heavy on infrastructure. I can try to find
a copy of the syllabus and let you know if I see anything on it that might
be useful. I have included a couple of possibilities on roads from a
syllabus I am building on the history of the automobile.

Christopher W. Wells, “The Road to the Model T: Culture, Road Conditions,
and Innovation at the Dawn of the American Motor Age,” *Technology &
Culture* 48, no. 3 (July 2007), 497-523.

L. Freed, “Networks of (colonial) power: roads in French Central Africa
after World War I” *History & Technology* September 2010.

Christopher W. Wells, “The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers,
Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880 – 1905,” *Agricultural
History* 80, no. 2 (Spring 2006), 143-166.

Best,

James



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
>
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