Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939 - Couverture souple

Jordan, John M.

 
9780807821237: Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939
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ISBN 10 : 0807821233 ISBN 13 : 9780807821237
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this interdisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs--bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers, and electrical power--inspired social and political reformers to borrow the language and logic of engineering in the early twentieth century, bringing terms like efficiency, technocracy, and social engineering into the political lexicon. Demonstrating that the cultural impact of technology spread far beyond the factory and laboratory, Jordan shows how a panoply of reformers embraced the language of machinery and engineering as metaphors for modern statecraft and social progress. President Herbert Hoover, himself an engineer, became the most powerful of the technocratic progressives. Elsewhere, this vision of social engineering was debated by academics, philanthropists, and commentators of the day--including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Lewis Mumford, Walter Lippmann, and Charles Beard. The result, Jordan argues, was a new way of talking about the state.

Originally published in 1994.

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À propos de l?auteur

John M. Jordan teaches Writing About History at Harvard University.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807821233
ISBN 13 
9780807821237
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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