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



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Titolo: A companion to American technology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Carroll Pursell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
Disciplina: 609
609.73
Soggetto topico: Technology - United States - History
Altri autori: PursellCarroll W  
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
Titolo autorizzato: A companion to American technology  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-34174-X
9786612341748
1-4051-6567-7
1-78034-040-0
0-470-69608-7
0-470-69533-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996209987103316
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Serie: Blackwell companions to American history ; ; 13.