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9780631228448: A Companion To American Technology
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ISBN 10 : 0631228446 ISBN 13 : 9780631228448
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

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 computing
  • Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture
  • Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society

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À propos de l'auteur

Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and Adjunct professor of Modern History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of White Heat: People and Technology (1994) and The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology (2nd edition, 2007), and the editor of Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (2nd edition, 1990) and American Technology (Blackwell, 2000).

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0631228446
ISBN 13 
9780631228448
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
480
Éditeur
Pursell Carroll
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