- Description
- 1 online resource (304 p., [18] p. of plates) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Master mechanics & wicked wizards (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Master mechanics & wicked wizards (Online)
- Master mechanics and wicked wizards
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century -- Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction -- A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century -- The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps -- The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors -- Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s -- Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb -- Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA -- Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics? -- America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier -- Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America -- Déjà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."
- LCCN
- 2009007124
- OCLC
- ssj0000607438
- Author
Allen, Glen Scott, 1950-
- Title
Master mechanics & wicked wizards [electronic resource] : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present / Glen Scott Allen.
- Imprint
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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