03381nam 22006134a 450 991014442090332120180514152247.01-282-34174-X97866123417481-4051-6567-71-78034-040-00-470-69608-70-470-69533-1(CKB)1000000000687414(EBL)470693(OCoLC)609849709(SSID)ssj0000292128(PQKBManifestationID)11228879(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292128(PQKBWorkID)10256638(PQKB)10182623(MiAaPQ)EBC470693(EXLCZ)99100000000068741420040818d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to American technology[electronic resource] /edited by Carroll PursellMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (480 p.)Blackwell companions to American history ;13Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-7994-5 0-631-22844-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Systems13 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; IndexA 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</ulBlackwell companions to American history ;13.TechnologyUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.TechnologyHistory.609609.73Pursell Carroll W621664MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910144420903321A companion to American technology2004954UNINA