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David Nye
David Nye, author of Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies, and, earlier, of American Technological Sublime, is Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. and his M.A. at the University of Minnesota, and has lectured throughout the United States and Europe on American history and culture.