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| DANIEL R. HEADRICK Professor Emeritus of Social Science and History Roosevelt University
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| Phone | (773) 322-2396 or (773) 955-0413 |
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| Postal mail | 5483 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL 60615 |
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History of Information Systems
History of Technology Environmental History International Relations (Click here for Daniel Headrick's curriculum vitae) | |
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POWER OVER PEOPLES: TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTS, AND WESTERN IMPERIALISM,
1400 TO THE PRESENT (forthcoming, Princeton University Press) TECHNOLOGY: A GLOBAL HISTORY (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) WHEN INFORMATION CAME OF AGE (Oxford University Press, 2000) THE INVISIBLE WEAPON (Oxford University Press, 1991) THE TENTACLES OF PROGRESS (Oxford University Press, 1988) THE TOOLS OF EMPIRE (Oxford University Press, 1981) EJERCITO Y POLITICA EN ESPANA (Tecnos, 1981) |
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COMMUNICATIONS AND IMPERIAL CONTROL (Keynote Address, conference on Media and Imperialism, University of Amsterdam, July 2007) SELF-MADE HOUSING (University of Michigan School of Architecture, May 2007) THE TOOLS OF EMPIRE REVISITED (Keynote Address, conference on Technology in the Colony, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Cal., Mar. 2007) THE PARADOX OF AIR CONTROL (conference on Technology in the Colony, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Cal., Mar. 2007) BRITISH IMPERIAL POSTAL NETWORKS (International Economic History conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006) MARITIME FRONTIERS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN (Society for Military History conference, Manhattan, Kansas, May 2006) HAS THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER SERVED ITS PURPOSE? (Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, March 2006) PORTUGUESE-OTTOMAN FRONTIERS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (University of Illinois at Chicago, November 2005) OUTSIDE THE BOX: THE BIG BANG AND THE FUTURE OF HISTORY (Roosevelt University Distinguished Faculty Lecture, March 2005) AIR POWER IN IRAQ: LESSONS FROM THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE (Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, Florida, March 2004) TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA (Society for the History of Technology conference, Atlanta, October 2003) THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER IN THE AGE OF REASON (University of Chicago, May 2003) STRATEGIC AND MILITARY ASPECTS OF SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH CABLES, 1851-1945 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2002) CULTURAL ORIGINS OF THE GLOBAL INFORMATION AGE (University of Rochester, March 2002). MIND BEFORE MATTER: CULTURAL ORIGINS OF THE INFORMATION AGE (Southwestern College, November 2001) POLYNESIAN NAVIGATION (Newberry Library, Chicago, 2000) ECONOMIC BOTANY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TROPICS (University of Tokyo, 2000) THE POLITICS OF MEASUREMENT (Hawaii Pacific University, 2000) THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER (University of Hawaii, 2000) THE POWER OF PLANTS (University of North Carolina, 1999) |
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RESEARCH
AND WRITING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY (the official term-paper manual) (Click here) THE BOOK REVIEW (Click here) | |
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