A companion to American technology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Carroll Pursell

• Record Nr.: UNISA996209987103316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• ISBN: 1-282-34174-X; 9786612341748; 1-4051-6567-7; 1-78034-040-0; 0-470-69608-7; 0-470-69533-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to American history ; ; 13
• Altri autori (Persone): PursellCarroll W
• Disciplina: 609; 609.73
• Soggetti: Technology - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Beginnings; 1 Technology in Colonial North America; 2 The American Industrial Revolution; Part II Sites of Production; 3 The Technology of Production; 4 Technology and Agriculture in Twentieth-Century America; 5 House and Home; 6 The City and Technology; 7 Technology and the Environment; 8 Government and Technology; 9 Medicine and Technology; Part III Sites of Contest; 10 The North American "Body-Machine" Complex; 11 Gender and Technology; 12 Labor and Technology; Part IV Technological Systems; 13 The Automotive Transportation System: Cars and Highways in Twentieth-Century America14 Airplanes; 15 Technology in Space; 16 Nuclear Technology; 17 Television; 18 Computers and the Internet: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility; Part V Producing and Reading Technological Culture; 19 The Profession of Engineering in America; 20 Popular Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century; 21 Art and Technology; 22 Critics of Technology; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of "technology" in America. 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computingAnalyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agricultureIncludes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society</ul