Professor Carroll Pursell
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- North American History 210312
Publications
- Pursell, C 2020, 'Some Sources of Technological Novelty: An Essay', ANU Historical Journal II, vol. 2, pp. 195-207.
- Pursell, C 2019, 'Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump', Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 136pp-138.
- Pursell, C 2019, 'Rebecca Onion, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States', Journal of American Studies, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 169.
- Pursell, C 2019, 'Making the political personal: Gender and sustainable lifestyles in 1970s Australia', in Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott (ed.), Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 139pp.
- Pursell, C 2018, 'Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Mechanization of Agriculture', in Carroll Pursell (ed.), Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 66pp-75pp.
- Pursell, C 2018, 'Lewis Latimer and the Role of the Black Inventors', in Carroll Pursell (ed.), Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 125-134pp.
- Pursell, C 2016, 'Technology and Social Inequality', Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 22-26.
- Pursell, C 2016, 'Carly A. Kocurek. Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade - [Book Review]', American Historical Review, vol. 121, no. 5, pp. 1702-1703pp.
- Pursell, C 2015, From Playgrounds to PlayStation, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Pursell, C 2014, 'Incandescent Light Bulb, USA (Thomas Edison, 1880)', in Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Iconic Designs - 50 Stories About 50 Things, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 118-121pp..
- Pursell, C 2014, 'Book review - Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America by Matthew Wisnioski', American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 2, pp. 555-556.
- Pursell, C 2013, 'Fun Factories: Inventing American Amusement Parks', Icon, vol. 19, no. 2013, pp. 75-99.
- Pursell, C 2012, 'The American Patent Agency: The Embedded 'Lone Inventor' in American History', Icon, vol. 17, pp. 31-39.
- Pursell, C 2012, 'Engineering', in Sharon P. Holland (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, Online, pp. 1pp.
- Pursell, C 2012, Science and Technology.
- Pursell, C 2011, 'The safe and rational children's playground: Strategies and technologies since the nineteenth century', History Australia, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 47-74.
- Pursell, C 2009, 'Sim van Der Ryn and the Architecture of the Appropriate Technology Movement', Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 17-30.
- Pursell, C 2010, 'Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production', Technology and Culture, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 715-722.
- Pursell, C 2010, 'Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers', in Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (ed.), Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Hampshire, UK, pp. 109-120.