Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-298) and index.
About the Author
Paul R. Josephson is associate professor of history at Colby College. He is author of Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today (Freeman, 1999),Totalitarian Science and Technology (Humanities, 1996), and New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (Princeton, 1997), which won the Shulman Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He has published articles in Physics Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Industrialized Nature
Chapter 1. Pyramids of Concrete: Rivers, Dams, and the Ideological Roots of Brute Force Technology
Chapter 2. The Cellulose Factory
Chapter 3. Corridors of Modernization
Chapter 4. Cold-Blooded Machines
Epilogue
Nature Irrevocably Transformed?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index