History of Technology (28) - Couverture rigide

 
9780826438751: History of Technology (28)
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 082643875X ISBN 13 : 9780826438751
Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2009

Synopsis

Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into everyday life'.
 
Includes the Special Issue ""By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies""

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À propos de l?auteur

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. He has broad research interests across the history of industrialisation and technological change, and in global history.

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Éditeur
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
082643875X
ISBN 13 
9780826438751
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Éditeur
Inkster Professor Ian
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