Recent Publications
"Hogs,
Antibiotics and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture"
in
Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History
Susan R. Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds.,
(New York/London: Routledge, 2004), 237-260
"Old Efforts
at New Uses: A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American
Search for Biobased Materials"
Journal of Industrial Ecology 7/3-4 (2004): 33-46
"New
Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany:
Recent Research on the History of German Agriculture"
Agricultural History 75 (Summer 2001): 279-307
"Guidebook
to Tours and Sites in Savannah, Georgia: Survey of the
Industrial and Economic History of Savannah" produced for 1999 national
meeting of
the Society for Industrial Archeology, Editor
"System
and Sales in the Heartland:
A Manufacturing History of the Hart-Parr Company, 1900-1930"
Annals of Iowa 57 (1998): 337-373
"The
Failure of Chemurgy the Depression-Era South:
The Case of Jesse F. Jackson and the Central of Georgia Railway"
Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (Spring 1997): 78-102
"Early
Marketing of Theory of Nutrition: The Science and Culture of Liebig's Extract
of Meat" in
The Science and Culture of Nutrition, Andrew Cunningham and Harmke
Kamminga, eds., 1840-1940 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995)
"The Savannah
and Ogeechee Canal"
Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Volume XIV, 7-31,
Easton PA: Canal History and Technology Press, 1995
"Quackery
and Cookery:
Justus von Liebig's Extract of Meat and the Theory of Nutrition in the Victorian
Age."
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 66 (Fall 1992): 404-418.
"Rehabilitation
of an Agricultural Chemist:
Justus von Liebig and the Seventh Edition."
Ambix 38 (1991): 155-167.
Republished in Liebig's Agriculturchemie, IX. Auflage, 1876, and
Supplementband, Wilhelm Lewicki, ed., (Holm: Agrimedia, 1995), 291-303.
"A Subtle
Relationship:
Justus von Liebig and the Agricultural Experiment Stations." in
World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation:
Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic.
W. R. Woodward and R. S. Cohen, eds., (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991), 309-329.
"The
Industrial Utilization of Farm Products and By-Products: The USDA
Regional Research Laboratories."
Agricultural History 64 (Spring 1990): 41-52.
"The
German Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Beginning of American Agricultural
Research."
Agricultural History 62 (Spring 1988): 41-50.
"Dashed
Expectations: Henry A. Wallace and the Iowa Progressive Party in 1948."
Annals of Iowa 49 (Summer 1988): 329-348.
Contributions to Encyclopedias
~American National Biography
~Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists
~Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Technology
~New Georgia Encyclopedia
~Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary
~Readers’ Guide to the History of Science
~History of American Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia
~Science and Its Times
~Iowa Biographical Dictionary
~The First, Second, and Third Industrial Revolutions: An Encyclopedia