Publications of Alex Roland
%% Books
@book{fds368355,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {A Spacefaring People Perspectives on Early Space
Flight},
Pages = {270 pages},
Year = {1985},
Abstract = {"Essays ... presented at a conference on the history of
space activity held at Yale University on February 6 and 7,
1981"--Introduction.},
Key = {fds368355}
}
@book{fds368350,
Author = {Galison, P and Roland, A},
Title = {Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century},
Pages = {383 pages},
Publisher = {Springer Science & Business Media},
Year = {2013},
Month = {March},
ISBN = {9789401143790},
Abstract = {THE EVOLUTION OF AERODYNAMICS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY:
ENGINEERING OR SCIENCEQ INTRODUCTION The field of ... well
as the use of this understanding in the design of flight
vehicles, has grown exponentially during the
twentiethcentury.},
Key = {fds368350}
}
@book{fds368353,
Author = {Galison, P and Roland, A},
Title = {Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century},
Pages = {383 pages},
Publisher = {Springer},
Editor = {Peter Galison and Alex Roland},
Year = {2001},
Month = {February},
ISBN = {9780792367420},
Abstract = {All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and
difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus
on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century
phenomenon.},
Key = {fds368353}
}
@book{fds368347,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Delta of Power The Military-Industrial Complex},
Pages = {304 pages},
Publisher = {JHU Press},
Year = {2021},
Month = {August},
ISBN = {9781421441818},
Abstract = {"The book covers the Cold War origins of the
military-industrial complex and explains its current
relevance since the 9/11 terrorist attacks"--},
Key = {fds368347}
}
@book{fds368356,
Author = {Preston, RA and Wise, SF},
Title = {Men in Arms A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships
with Western Society},
Pages = {478 pages},
Publisher = {Holt McDougal},
Year = {1979},
Key = {fds368356}
}
@book{fds359321,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {MODEL RESEARCH: THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR
AERONAUTICS 1915-1958.},
Year = {1985},
Month = {December},
Abstract = {Throughout most of its history, the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was arguably the most
important and productive aeronautical research establishment
in the world. This book examines the NACA as an institution,
attempting to explain how and why it functioned and to
evaluate it as a research organization. Although the NACA's
technical achievements permeate the story, this book is not
a technical history. It is primarily a political and
institutional history focusing on the NACA as a model
research organization. The principal themes of this story
are three: First are the institutional considerations. The
second theme encompasses personnel policies and how they
shaped NACA research. Finally, it is shown how research
equipment shaped the NACA's program fully as much as did its
organization and personnel.},
Key = {fds359321}
}
@book{fds368352,
Author = {A. Roland and Roland, A and Roland, POHA and Shiman, P},
Title = {Strategic Computing DARPA and the Quest for Machine
Intelligence, 1983-1993},
Pages = {478 pages},
Publisher = {MIT Press},
Year = {2002},
ISBN = {9780262182263},
Abstract = {1 Robert Kahn : Visionary Robert Kahn was the godfather of
Strategic Computing ( SC ) .1 He con- ceived the program as
a source of patronage for his professional family . He
developed a rationale that gave the program the
political ...},
Key = {fds368352}
}
@book{fds368354,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {The Military-Industrial Complex},
Publisher = {Society for the History of Technology and the American
HIstorical Association},
Year = {2001},
Key = {fds368354}
}
@book{fds368348,
Author = {Roland, A and Bolster, WJ and Keyssar, A},
Title = {The Way of the Ship America's Maritime History Reenvisoned,
1600-2000},
Pages = {556 pages},
Publisher = {Wiley},
Year = {2017},
Month = {November},
ISBN = {9781684421503},
Abstract = {This is part of a two-book project created by the American
Maritime History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise
with an office at the United States Merchant Marine Academy
at Kings Point, New York.},
Key = {fds368348}
}
@book{fds368351,
Author = {Roland, A and Bolster, WJ and Keyssar, A},
Title = {The Way of the Ship America's Maritime History Reenvisoned,
1600-2000},
Pages = {564 pages},
Publisher = {John Wiley & Sons},
Year = {2008},
ISBN = {9780470136003},
Abstract = {The Way of the Ship tells the important story of the
commercial transport of passengers and goods from port to
port in American history and the ways in which it fueled the
material and economic expansion of the country.},
Key = {fds368351}
}
@book{fds368301,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail},
Pages = {270 pages},
Year = {1978},
Key = {fds368301}
}
@book{fds368349,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {War and Technology A Very Short Introduction},
Pages = {152 pages},
Publisher = {Oxford University Press},
Year = {2016},
ISBN = {9780190605384},
Abstract = {Politics, economics, ideology, culture, strategy, tactics,
and philosophy have all shaped war, but none of these
factors has driven the evolution of warfare as much as
technology.},
Key = {fds368349}
}
%% Journal Articles
@article{fds333666,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {A History of War in 100 Battles},
Journal = {JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY},
Volume = {79},
Number = {2},
Pages = {475-475},
Year = {2015},
Key = {fds333666}
}
@article{fds326517,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {America Inc.? Innovation and Enterprise in the National
Security State by Linda Weiss},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {57},
Number = {3},
Pages = {694-696},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2016},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2016.0092},
Key = {fds326517}
}
@article{fds359317,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Celebration or education? the goals of the u.s. national air
and space museum},
Journal = {History and Technology},
Volume = {10},
Number = {1},
Pages = {77-89},
Year = {1993},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1080/07341519308581837},
Key = {fds359317}
}
@article{fds359311,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Containers and causality},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {48},
Number = {2},
Pages = {386-392},
Year = {2007},
Month = {April},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2007.0087},
Key = {fds359311}
}
@article{fds366893,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Craig L. Symonds, World War II at Sea: A Global
History},
Journal = {Canadian Journal of History},
Volume = {54},
Number = {1-2},
Pages = {269-271},
Publisher = {University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)},
Year = {2019},
Month = {September},
Doi = {10.3138/cjh.54.1-2.11-br48},
Key = {fds366893}
}
@article{fds359319,
Author = {ROLAND, A},
Title = {Hephaestus and History Scientists, Engineers, and War in
Western Experience},
Journal = {Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
Volume = {577},
Number = {1},
Pages = {51-60},
Year = {1989},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb15049.x},
Key = {fds359319}
}
@article{fds359310,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Heyday of the boffins},
Journal = {Minerva},
Volume = {46},
Number = {1},
Pages = {159-163},
Year = {2008},
Month = {March},
Doi = {10.1007/s11024-007-9083-6},
Key = {fds359310}
}
@article{fds352487,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Is military technology deterministic?},
Journal = {Vulcan},
Volume = {7},
Number = {1},
Pages = {19-33},
Year = {2020},
Month = {January},
Abstract = {In their papers prepared for this volume, Kelly DeVries and
David Zimmerman explore the differing viewpoints on
technological determinism that military historians bring to
bear on premodern and modern warfare. This paper analyzes
their respective arguments, including DeVries's introduction
of the concepts of effectiveness, invincibility, and
decisiveness; it focuses primarily on technological
determinism. It explores some concepts of historical
causation and concludes that nothing in human behavior is
deterministic. It recommends language that can help
historians avoid this rhetorical battleground and speak more
clearly and judiciously about the factors that shape warfare
and affect its outcome.},
Doi = {10.1163/22134603-00701002},
Key = {fds352487}
}
@article{fds331088,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and
the United States by Hermione Giffard},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {58},
Number = {3},
Pages = {878-879},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2017},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2017.0093},
Key = {fds331088}
}
@article{fds359316,
Author = {Long, PO and Roland, A},
Title = {Military secrecy in antiquity and early medieval Europe: A
critical reassessment},
Journal = {History and Technology},
Volume = {11},
Number = {2},
Pages = {259-290},
Year = {1994},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1080/07341519408581866},
Key = {fds359316}
}
@article{fds359306,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {On the water: Stories from Maritime America National Museum
of American history, Washington, D.C.},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {51},
Number = {3},
Pages = {723-727},
Year = {2010},
Month = {July},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2010.0025},
Key = {fds359306}
}
@article{fds359314,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Once More into the Stirrups: Lynn White jr., Medieval
Technology and Social Change},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {44},
Number = {3},
Pages = {574-585},
Year = {2003},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2003.0131},
Key = {fds359314}
}
@article{fds359320,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Priorities in space for the USA},
Journal = {Space Policy},
Volume = {3},
Number = {2},
Pages = {104-111},
Year = {1987},
Month = {January},
Abstract = {This article follows the story of Shuttle development, in
the context of the history of the US space programme from
Apollo to the Space Station. The Shuttle was chosen as one
of a series of 'space spectaculars' and has proven to be
prohibitively expensive and unreliable, practical only for a
very limited number of specialized missions. The Space
Station, too, cannot be economically supplied, even if the
USA could afford to build it. The author concludes that NASA
should cancel the Space Station and the replacement orbiter
for Challenger, and engage on a major programme of launch
vehicle development, independent of the US military. The aim
should be a dramatic reduction of launch vehicle costs,
making spaceflight practical, and a truly independent NASA
which could restore the USA to space preeminence. ©
1987.},
Doi = {10.1016/0265-9646(87)90006-3},
Key = {fds359320}
}
@article{fds331089,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Rebecca Slayton. Arguments That Count: Physics,
Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949–2012. xi + 325
pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT
Press, 2013. $35 (cloth).},
Journal = {Isis},
Volume = {105},
Number = {3},
Pages = {671-672},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Year = {2014},
Month = {September},
Doi = {10.1086/679175},
Key = {fds331089}
}
@article{fds359313,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Reconsidering a century of flight},
Journal = {British Journal for the History of Science},
Volume = {39},
Number = {1},
Pages = {145-146},
Year = {2006},
Month = {March},
Doi = {10.1017/S0007087406407895},
Key = {fds359313}
}
@article{fds369999,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the
Triumph of the Modern Airplane by Jeremy R.
Kinney},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {59},
Number = {4},
Pages = {987-988},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2018},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2018.0107},
Key = {fds369999}
}
@article{fds333667,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Robert G. Ferguson. NASA's First A: Aeronautics from 1958
to 2008. viii + 293 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index.
Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, 2013. $20 (cloth).},
Journal = {Isis},
Volume = {105},
Number = {4},
Pages = {866-867},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Year = {2014},
Month = {December},
Doi = {10.1086/680298},
Key = {fds333667}
}
@article{fds326518,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early
Spaceflight by Michael G. Smith},
Journal = {Journal of World History},
Volume = {26},
Number = {3},
Pages = {684-686},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2015},
Doi = {10.1353/jwh.2015.0019},
Key = {fds326518}
}
@article{fds370000,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Sean F. Johnston. The Neutron's Children: Nuclear
Engineers and the Shaping of Identity. xi + 313 pp.,
illus., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012. $62.99 (cloth).},
Journal = {Isis},
Volume = {104},
Number = {3},
Pages = {648-649},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Year = {2013},
Month = {September},
Doi = {10.1086/674512},
Key = {fds370000}
}
@article{fds359309,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Ships for this new ocean},
Journal = {Futures},
Volume = {41},
Number = {8},
Pages = {523-530},
Year = {2009},
Month = {October},
Abstract = {The voyages of Christopher Columbus are invoked by Americans
more than any other historical analog to capture the ethos
of the manned space program. A better analogy would be Leif
Ericksson. He and his fellow Norsemen reached North America
five centuries before Columbus by travelling in the most
remarkable sailing vessels of their time. Not until
Columbus, however, did Europeans have at their disposal a
robust maritime technology that would allow them to not only
reach the Western hemisphere but also to sail back and forth
to Europe reliably. Over the last forty-five years, the
United States has developed space launch vehicles that can
carry astronauts to near-Earth orbit and even to the moon.
It has failed, however, to develop the space ship that can
do for the United States what the caravel did for Columbus.
The current program to build a new suite of launch vehicles
simply recycles old technology. It builds longships, not
caravels. To achieve its goals for manned spaceflight, NASA
must first build a safe, reliable, and economical launch
vehicle. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights
reserved.},
Doi = {10.1016/j.futures.2009.04.020},
Key = {fds359309}
}
@article{fds359308,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {The state of space history},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {51},
Number = {1},
Pages = {220-222},
Year = {2010},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0416},
Key = {fds359308}
}
@article{fds359312,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {The worst century ever: William Pfaff, the bullet's song:
Romantic violence and Utopia},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {47},
Number = {3},
Pages = {597-606},
Year = {2006},
Month = {July},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.2006.0198},
Key = {fds359312}
}
@article{fds359318,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Theories and Models of Technological Change: Semantics and
Substance},
Journal = {Science, Technology & Human Values},
Volume = {17},
Number = {1},
Pages = {79-100},
Year = {1992},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.1177/016224399201700105},
Key = {fds359318}
}
@article{fds359307,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Was the nuclear arms race deterministic?},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {51},
Number = {2},
Pages = {444-461},
Year = {2010},
Month = {April},
Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0457},
Key = {fds359307}
}
@article{fds359315,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {What Hath Kranzberg wrought? Or, does the history of
technology matter?},
Journal = {Technology and Culture},
Volume = {38},
Number = {3},
Pages = {697-712},
Year = {1997},
Month = {January},
Doi = {10.2307/3106860},
Key = {fds359315}
}
%% Papers Published
@article{fds7219,
Author = {Theodore Ropp},
Title = {Introduction},
Pages = {3-10},
Booktitle = {War in the Modern World},
Publisher = {Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press},
Year = {2000},
Key = {fds7219}
}
@article{fds359305,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {Secrecy, technology, and war: Greek fire and the defense of
byzantium, 678-1204},
Pages = {419-443},
Booktitle = {Warfare in the Dark Ages},
Year = {2017},
Month = {May},
ISBN = {9780754625575},
Key = {fds359305}
}
@article{fds359304,
Author = {Roland, A},
Title = {The lonely race to mars: The future of manned
spaceflight},
Pages = {35-49},
Booktitle = {Space Policy Alternatives},
Year = {2019},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780367288488},
Abstract = {The primary argument for manned spaceflight has always been
prestige. The enthusiasm to put men in space began after
Sputnik, when the Soviet Union seemed to have stolen a march
on the United States. The John F. Kennedy Space Center was
originally planned to handle 50 Apollo launches a year. By
1965 most of the money for the program was spent in any
case, invested in research and development on the huge
Saturn launch vehicle and the Apollo spacecraft and in the
facilities at Houston and Cape Canaveral that would launch
and control the manned missions. The consensus was strong
enough to sustain the Apollo program through the dark days
after the Apollo fire of 1967 and through seven of the
projected nine trips to the moon. Congressional support for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration in general and
the manned space program in particular has remained strong
through good times and bad.},
Doi = {10.4324/9780429307232-4},
Key = {fds359304}
}
%% Papers In Progress
@article{fds7221,
Author = {A. Roland and Raymond Ashley and Jeffrey Bolster and Alexander Keyssar and David Sicilia},
Title = {A Maritime History of the United States},
Year = {2003},
Key = {fds7221}
}
@article{fds7220,
Title = {Understanding War},
Editor = {Richard H. Kohn and Alex Roland},
Year = {2002},
Key = {fds7220}
}