David E. Nye

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David E. Nye is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology.^[1][2][3]

Books

• The Invented Self: An Anti-biography, from Documents of Thomas A. Edison (1983)†
• Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 (1985)
• Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (1990)
• American Technological Sublime (1994)
• Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (1997)
• Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture (1997)**
• Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling (1999)*
• America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2003)
• Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (2006) (for which he received the 2009 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology^[4])
• When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (2010)
• America's Assembly Line (2013)
• The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction—with Robert S. Emmett (2017)
• American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800–1920 (2018)
• Conflicted American Landscapes (2021)

Nearly all of Nye's books have been published by the MIT Press, except *University of Massachusetts Press; **Columbia University Press; and †Odense University Press. Cleveland Review of Books said his writing provides "a lexicon and a history with which we can think through the current conflicts over land and the environment."^[5]

References

1. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, Society for the History of Technology. Accessed June 25, 2011
2. Professor David Nye: Leonardo da Vinci Medal, News and Events, University of Warwick. Accessed June 25, 2011
3. Professor David Nye, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, is Awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal 2005 by the Society for the History of Technology Archived 2020-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Danish Association for American Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006, pp. 6-7
4. "SHOT Hacker Prize". Archived from the original on 2012-07-02. Retrieved 2011-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Society for the History of Technology. Accessed June 25, 2011
5. "This Land is My Land: On David Nye's "Conflicted American Landscapes"". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-11-23.

External links

• Faculty profile Archived 2011-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark
• David Nye CV, University of Southern Denmark
• Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute and the History of Science and Technology program at the University of Minnesota