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1. David E. Nye

Sorrow and Satisfaction

David E. Nye is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Southern Denmark and a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. His more than twenty-five books on US history include Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940; America as a Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings; and Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. Nye's numerous awards include the Leonardo da Vinci Medal. He divides his time between Denmark and the United States.

1. David E. Nye

The Great Energy Transition

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American Illuminations

How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world's most dazzling and glamorous cities.Illuminated fêtes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected such monarchial pomp and adapted spectacular lighting to their democratic, commercial culture. In American Illuminations, David Nye explains how they experimented with gas and electric light to create illuminated cityscapes far brighter and more dynamic than those of Europe, and how these illuminations became symbols of modernity and the conquest of nature.Americans used gaslight and electricity in parades, expositions, advertising, elections, and political spectacles. In the 1880s, cities erected powerful arc lights on towers to create artificial moonlight. By the 1890s they adopted more intensive, commercial lighting that defined distinct zones of light and glamorized the city's White Ways, skyscrapers, bridges, department stores, theaters, and dance halls. Poor and blighted areas disappeared into the shadows. American illuminations also became integral parts of national political campaigns, presidential inaugurations, and victory celebrations after the Spanish-American War and World War I.

1. David E. Nye

Seven Sublimes

1. David E. Nye

Conflicted American Landscapes

The Anti-Landscape

David E. Nye is Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. His books include American Technological Sublime, Narratives and Spaces, America as Second Creation, Technology Matters, and America’s Assembly Line. He received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005 for his life’s work. Sarah Elkind is an environmental historian at San Diego State University. Her most recent work is How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy. She held the 2010-2011 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.