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| Publications of Alex Roland :recent first alphabetical by type listing:%% @book{fds368301, Author = {Roland, A}, Title = {Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail}, Pages = {270 pages}, Year = {1978}, Key = {fds368301} } @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{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{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} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0265-9646(87)90006-3}, 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{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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb15049.x}, Doi = {10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb15049.x}, Key = {fds359319} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399201700105}, Doi = {10.1177/016224399201700105}, Key = {fds359318} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07341519308581837}, Doi = {10.1080/07341519308581837}, Key = {fds359317} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07341519408581866}, Doi = {10.1080/07341519408581866}, Key = {fds359316} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3106860}, Doi = {10.2307/3106860}, Key = {fds359315} } @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} } @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{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{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} } @article{fds7220, Title = {Understanding War}, Editor = {Richard H. Kohn and Alex Roland}, Year = {2002}, Key = {fds7220} } @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{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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2003.0131}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2003.0131}, Key = {fds359314} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087406407895}, Doi = {10.1017/S0007087406407895}, Key = {fds359313} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2006.0198}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2006.0198}, Key = {fds359312} } @article{fds359311, Author = {Roland, A}, Title = {Containers and causality}, Journal = {Technology and Culture}, Volume = {48}, Number = {2}, Pages = {386-392}, Year = {2007}, Month = {April}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2007.0087}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2007.0087}, Key = {fds359311} } @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} } @article{fds359310, Author = {Roland, A}, Title = {Heyday of the boffins}, Journal = {Minerva}, Volume = {46}, Number = {1}, Pages = {159-163}, Year = {2008}, Month = {March}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-007-9083-6}, Doi = {10.1007/s11024-007-9083-6}, Key = {fds359310} } @article{fds359309, Author = {Roland, A}, Title = {Ships for this new ocean}, Journal = {Futures}, Volume = {41}, Number = {8}, Pages = {523-530}, Year = {2009}, Month = {October}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2009.04.020}, 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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0416}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0416}, Key = {fds359308} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0457}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0457}, Key = {fds359307} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2010.0025}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2010.0025}, Key = {fds359306} } @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} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674512}, Doi = {10.1086/674512}, Key = {fds370000} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/679175}, Doi = {10.1086/679175}, Key = {fds331089} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680298}, Doi = {10.1086/680298}, Key = {fds333667} } @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{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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2015.0019}, Doi = {10.1353/jwh.2015.0019}, Key = {fds326518} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2016.0092}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2016.0092}, Key = {fds326517} } @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} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2017.0093}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2017.0093}, Key = {fds331088} } @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} } @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} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0107}, Doi = {10.1353/tech.2018.0107}, Key = {fds369999} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429307232-4}, 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} } @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.54.1-2.11-br48}, Doi = {10.3138/cjh.54.1-2.11-br48}, Key = {fds366893} } @article{fds352487, Author = {Roland, A}, Title = {Is military technology deterministic?}, Journal = {Vulcan}, Volume = {7}, Number = {1}, Pages = {19-33}, Year = {2020}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134603-00701002}, 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} } @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} } | |
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