LEADER 03345nam 22006014a 450 001 996209987103316 005 20230617035904.0 010 $a1-282-34174-X 010 $a9786612341748 010 $a1-4051-6567-7 010 $a1-78034-040-0 010 $a0-470-69608-7 010 $a0-470-69533-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000687414 035 $a(EBL)470693 035 $a(OCoLC)609849709 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292128 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228879 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292128 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256638 035 $a(PQKB)10182623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470693 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000687414 100 $a20040818d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to American technology$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Carroll Pursell 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to American history ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-7994-5 311 $a0-631-22844-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $a13 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 330 $aA 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