Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

in Modern China.” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 1–17.
3399. HUBBARD, Jennifer Mary. A Science on the
Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries
Biology, 1898–1939. (x + 351 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006. ISBN:
0802088597.
3400. JONES, Jeffrey Jacob. “The World Was Our
Garden: United States Plant Introduction, Empire,
and Industrial Agri(culture), 1898–1948.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 66/03 (2005): 1131.
Dissertation at Purdue University, 2004. Adviser: Curtis,
Susan. UMI pub. no. 3166642. 547 pp.
3401. KIMMELMAN, Barbara A. “Mr. Blakeslee
Builds His Dream House: Agricultural Institutions,
Genetics, and Careers, 1900–1915.” Special Issue:
Biology and Agriculture [ref. 651]. J. Hist. Biol. 39
(2006): 241–280.
3402. MATCHETT, Karin. “At Odds over Inbreeding:
An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration
to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, 1940–1950.”
Special Issue: Biology and Agriculture [ref. 651]. J.
Hist. Biol. 39 (2006): 345–372.
3403. PETERS, Erica J. “Taste, Taxes, and Technologies:
Industrializing Rice Alcohol in Northern
Vietnam, 1902–1913.” French Hist. Stud. 27 (2004):
569–600.
3404. SHEPHERD, Chris J. “Imperial Science: The
Rockefeller Foundation and Agricultural Science in
Peru, 1940–1960.” Special issue on Postcolonial
Technoscience [ref. 657]. Sci. Cult. 14 (2005): 113–
137.
3405. WATANABE Hiroyuki. “The Total Mobilization
and Wildlife: The Introduction of Nutrias in
Japan.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi Ken.
(Hist. Sci.) 42 (2003): 129–139.
Nutrias were bred for fur during World War II.
3406. WEST, A. Joshua. “Forests and National Security:
British and American Forestry Policy in the
Wake of World War I.” Environ. Hist. 8 (2003):
270–293.
3407. ZHANG Yu-mu. “Science and Technology of
Agriculture in the KMT-Ruled Area in Hubei during
the War of Resistance Against Japan.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004):
106–116.
370-164. AIR AND SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
3408. ADAMS, Noah. The Flyers: In Search of
Wilbur and Orville Wright. (xiv + 221 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003. ISBN:
0609810324.
3409. BEDNAREK, Janet R. Daly, and Roger D.
LAUNIUS. (Eds.) Reconsidering a Century of Flight.
(xii + 300 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Chapel Hill,
N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN:
0807828157.
Contents (from WorldCat): Roger D. LAUNIUS, Janet R.
Daly BEDNAREK, “Whither a Century of Flight”; Roger
E. BILSTEIN, “The Technology of Flight: Three Sides of a
Coin”; Roger D. LAUNIUS, “The Wright Brothers, Government
Support for Aeronautical Research, and the Evolution
of Flight”; Hans-Joachim BRAUN, “Innovation in Flight
from the Perspective of Europe”; David D. LEE, “Herbert
370. Twentieth century 155
Hoover and Commercial Aviation Policy, 1921–1933”; W.
David LEWIS, “A Perennial Challenge to Aviation Safety:
Battling the Menace of Ice”; William M. LEARY, “Edward
V. Rickenbacker’s Reaction to Civil Aviation Policy in the
1930s: A Hidden Dimension”; A. Timothy WARNOCK, “The
Wright Brothers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1905–
1915”; John H. MORROW, “Brave Men Flying: The Wright
Brothers and Military Aviation in World War I”; Tami Davis
BIDDLE, “Strategic Air Warfare: An Analysis”; David T.
COURTWRIGHT, “The Routine Stuff: How Flying Became
a Form of Mass Transportation”; Anne Collins GOODYEAR,
“The Effect of Flight on Art in the Twentieth Century”;
Dominick A. PISANO, “The Spirit of St. Louis—Fact and
Symbol: Misinterpreting a Historic Cultural Artifact”.
3410. DAWSON, Paul Louis. “Luis de Florez and the
Special Devices Division.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/12
(2005): 4696.
Dissertation at George Washington University, 2005. Adviser:
Spector, Ronald. UMI pub. no. 3158505. 331 pp. Florez
promoted the use of simulators and other non-operational
equipment.
3411. DAWSON, Virginia P., and Mark D. BOWLES.
(Eds.) Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical
Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight,
1903–2003. The NASA History Series; NASA SP,
2005-4112. (xv + 310 pp.; ill.; DVD; bibl.; index.)
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, NASA History Division, Office of
External Relations, 2005.
Enclosed DVD contains proceedings of this symposium,
including presentations of the authors, their responses, and
supplemental information.
3412. ICHIKAWA Hiroshi. “The Rocketry Development
and the Ministry of Armament in the Former-
Soviet Union.” [Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002): 138–149.
3413. JIANG Long. “The Establishment of Beijing
College of Aeronautics and the Aids of Soviet Union.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao
25 (2004): 54–80.
3414. MIZUSAWA Hikari. “The Army’s Plan to
Build ‘The Central Aeronautical Institute’ and the
Technology Board’s Prioritizing the Aviation Technology.”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakusi
Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 42 (2003): 31–39.
3415. MIZUSAWA Hikari. “The Japanese Army’s
Request to Aeronautical Research Institutions during
the Asian-Pacific War.” [Translated title.] In
Japanese. Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 43 (2004):
22–30.
3416. PETERSEN, Michael Brian. “Engineering
Consent: Peenemuende, National Socialism, and the
V-2 Missile, 1924–1945.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/05
(2005): 1920.
Dissertation at the University of Maryland, College Park,
2005. Adviser: Herf, Jeffrey. UMI pub. no. 3175089. 451
pp. Refers to Germany’s Peenemünde missile base.
3417. PHILLIPS MACKOWSKI, Maura. Testing the
Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned
Space Flight. Centennial of Flight Series. (xii + 289
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) College Station: Texas A&M
Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN: 1585444391.
3418. SIDDIQI, Asif A. “The Rockets’ Red Glare:
Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857–
1957.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/11 (2005): 4327.