Pursell, Carroll W. (Editor)
Blackwell Publishers
Physical Details: x + 463 pp.
Language: English
Description Contents: Part I. Beginnings. Technology in colonial North America / Robert B. Gordon -- The American industrial revolution / James C. Williams. Part II. Sites of production. The technology of production / Carroll Pursell -- Technology and agriculture in twentieth-century America / Deborah Fitzgerald -- House and home / Gail Cooper -- The city and technology / Joel A. Tarr -- Technology and the environment / Betsy Mendelsohn -- Government and technology / Carroll Pursell -- Medicine and technology / James M. Edmonson. Part III. Sites of contest. The North American ,“body-machine” complex / Chris Hables Gray -- Gender and technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Labor and technology / Arwen P. Mohun. Part IV. Technological systems. The automotive transportation system: cars and highways in twentieth-century America / Bruce E. Seely -- Airplanes / Roger E. Bilstein -- Technology in space / Roger D. Launius -- Nuclear technology / M. Joshua Silverman -- Television / Douglas Gomery -- Computers and the internet: braiding irony, paradox, and possibility / Jeffrey R. Yost. Part V. Producing and reading technological culture. The profession of engineering in America / Bruce Sinclair -- Popular culture and technology in the twentieth century / Molly W. Berger -- Art and technology / Henry Adams -- Critics of technology / David E. Nye. (from WorldCat)
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