1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451165603321

Titolo

Instrumental in War : Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World / / edited by Steven Walton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86767-1

9786610867677

1-4294-5277-3

90-474-0703-2

1-4337-0683-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

History of Warfare ; ; 28

Disciplina

355/.07

Soggetti

Military art and science - Technological innovations

Military research - History

Scientific apparatus and instruments - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Volume Contributions -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, Steven A. Walton -- Chapter One, Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Military Gentleman, Steven A. Walton -- Chapter Two, Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland, William A. Lynch -- Chapter Three, Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban, Jamel Ostwald -- Chapter Four, Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder, Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Chapter Five, Telegraphing the Weather: Military Meteorology, Strategy, and 'Homeland Security' on the American Frontier in the 1870s, James R. Fleming -- Chapter Six, Remnants of Testing at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Gerard P. Scharfenberger -- Chapter Seven, From Measuring Progress to Technological Innovation: The Prewar Annapolis Engineering Experiment Station, William M. McBride -- Chapter Eight, Dr. Veblen at Aberdeen: Mathematics, Military Applications and Mass



Production, David Alan Grier -- Chapter Nine, National Naval Laboratories and the Development of Fire Control Gyrocompasses in Interwar Britain and France, Sebastien Soubiran -- Chapter Ten, Washouts: Electroencephalography, epilepsy & emotions in the selection of American aviators during the Second World War, Kenton Kroker -- Chapter Eleven, A Matter of Gravity: Military Support for Gravimetry during the Cold War, Deborah J. Warner -- Chapter Twelve, Physics Between War and Peace, Peter Galison -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Scientific research and instrumentation are crucial for military action today but they have not always been so. This collection investigates 500 years of the relationship between warfare, research, and instruments - both physical and intellectual - to understand this interaction. With U.S., English and French examples, contributors provide examples from army and naval history to show how governments and individuals made warfare scientific, developing instruments, stations, and organizations that furthered the cause. Some developments directly aided war efforts; others were parts of 'normal science' in peacetime; and others were relatively ineffective in directly bringing about military change. These developmental histories shed light on the origins of modern scientific warfare. Contributors: Steven A. Walton; William A. Lynch; Jamel Ostwald; Seymour H. Mauskopf ; James R. Fleming; Gerard P. Scharfenberger; William M. McBride; David Alan Grier; Sebastien Soubiran; Kenton Kroker; Deborah J. Warner; Peter Galison.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798256703321

Titolo

News media and the neoliberal privatization of education / / edited by Zane C. Wubbena, Texas State University, Derek R. Ford, Syracuse University, and Brad J. Porfilio, California State University

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlotte, NC : , : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-68123-401-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Critical constructions : studies on education and society

Disciplina

379.3

Soggetti

Mass media and education

Communication and education

Privatization in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : News Media, (Re-)Presentational Epistemology, and the School as a Built Environment Within the Neoliberal Context / Zane C. Wubbena and Brad Porfilio -- How the Networks Cover Education : Schools Are Not the Media's Pet / Michael J. Robinson -- The Mediatization of Educational Policies in Chile : The Role of the Media in a Neoliberal Education Field / Cristian Cabalin -- A Twenty-First Century Education : Mediatization of School Reform Discourses / Rebecca A. Goldstein and Nataly Z. Chesky -- The News Media and the Heritage Foundation : Promoting Education Advocacy at the Expense of Authority / Eric Haas -- Testing, Testing, Read All About It : Canadian Press Coverage of the PISA Results / Michelle Stack -- Neoliberal Education Reform's Mouthpiece : Education Week's Discourse on Teach for America / Michelle Gautreaux -- News Framing and Charter School Reform / Abe Feuerstein -- The Media Got it Wrong! : A Critical Discourse Analysis of QA : "Policy Changes to the Educational Policymaking Arena Making" / Peter Piazza -- Lessons From the "Pen Alongside the Sword" School Reform : Webster's Through the Lens of Radical Black Press / Kuram Hussain and Mark Stern -- Oppositional Politics and the Internet : A Critical/ Reconstructive Approach / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner.