Daniel R. Headrick

Daniel R. Headrick is an American historian and writer who specializes in the history of international relations, technology, and the environment.

Biography

Headrick obtained a PhD in history at Princeton University in 1971 with a thesis on "The Spanish Army, 1868-1898 : Structure, Function and Politics".[1]

Scholarly Publications
  • Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History, Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present, Princeton University Press, 2010.[2]
  • Technology: A World History, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revoluion, 1700-1850, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (co-authored with Richard Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Stephen Hirsch, Lyman Johnson, and David Northrup), Houghton-Mifflin, 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2007.
  • The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945, Oxford University Press, 1991.[3]
  • The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940, Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 1981.
  • Ejército y política en España (1866-1898), Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1981.

Headrick's books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.

Headrick has also published numerous articles and book reviews in scholarly journals in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Honors and Grants

Headrick received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.[4]

References
  1. Headrick, Daniel R (1 June 1971). The Spanish Army, 1868-1898: structure, function and politics. Retrieved 1 June 2018 – via Open WorldCat.
  2. Smil, Vaclav (2011). "Reviewed Work: Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Daniel R. Headrick". American Historical Review. 116 (1): 144–145. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.1.144. JSTOR 23307572.
  3. Millard, Andre (1994). "Reviewed Work: The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 by Daniel R. Headrick". Journal of World History. 5 (1): 153–155. JSTOR 20078591.
  4. "Daniel R. Headrick". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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